At least 36 people were killed on Tuesday as a group of suicide bombers targeted the capital of Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran.

At least 36 people were killed on Tuesday as a group of suicide bombers targeted the capital of Afghanistan's southwestern Nimroz province on the border with Iran.

The attack on Zaranj city is the biggest in recent memory in the relatively peaceful province that avoids most of the bloodshed in Afghanistan.
Three suicide attackers out of an original group of 11 blew themselves up in separate areas of the city, one outside a hospital, police said.

"This was a group of 11 attackers who wanted to conduct simultaneous attacks across the city," deputy provincial police chief Mujibullah Latifi told AFP.

"Security forces killed two of the suicide attackers last night and detained three others this morning. Three managed to detonate themselves while three others were gunned down."

"We have confirmation that 21 civilians and 15 members of the security forces have been killed in these attacks and more than 66 others injured," provincial governor Abdul Karim Brahawi told AFP.