"A vehicle packed with explosives was parked next to police vehicles and it exploded."

A car bombing hit the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killing three people and wounding other 12, AFP news agency quoted officials as saying.


"Initially we received one dead body and two of the wounded died later, taking the death toll to three," said Mohammad Afzal, a doctor at the city's main hospital. He added that 12 people had been injured, mostly police.


The city's police chief, Khan Mohammad, said the explosion was a car bombing in front of a bank -- where locals said police went to collect their salaries -- and that one of the dead was a police officer.
"This was a car bomb attack which exploded next to police vehicles in front of Kabul Bank," Mohammad said.


Explaining what happened in the blast, local police officer Basir Khan told AFP: "Police had come to the bank to get their salaries and they had parked vehicles outside.
"A vehicle packed with explosives was parked next to police vehicles and it exploded."