Three children were killed on Saturday when a bomb exploded in the restive southern Afghan city of Kandahar

Three children were killed on Saturday when a bomb exploded in the restive southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said.
   
The victims, all under the age of 10, had entered an empty shop to shelter from the hot summer sun when a bomb hidden inside went off, killing three and wounding six other children, according to provincial police spokesman Zia Durani.
   
"The explosives had been hidden in the shop and went off as the kids, all students of a nearby madrassa, tried to get rest in it," Durani said.
   
A spokesman for the provincial governor confirmed the blast, blaming the Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency since late-2001.