At least eight people are dead following a suicide bomb attack at a police station in Afghanistan.
Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside the headquarters of the main police station in the country's southern city of Kandahar.
Police officials and civilians were among the casualties.
The attack is the latest in worsening violence in recent months in Afghanistan where the al Qaeda-backed Taliban have made a comeback.
The blasts occurred hours after a suicide bomber failed to hit a convoy of NATO in western Herat.
Earlier, officials said that US-led soldiers, backed by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban fighters in two separate clashes.
In Helmand, a southern province also regarded as a Taliban stronghold, militants lost ten men in an assault on a police post, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said.
Four police were wounded defending their post.
