15 wounded in blast at southern Afghanistan polling station
At least 15 people were wounded Saturday when a bomb
exploded at a polling station in southern Afghanistan, a hospital official
said, hours after voting got underway in the presidential election.
An “explosion took place outside a polling centre in
the city of Kandahar, and 15 people -- all men - were injured and were brought
to the hospital,” Naimatullah, the head of a regional hospital who only has one
name, told AFP.
Insurgents worked to disrupt Afghanistan’s
presidential election Saturday, with a series of blasts reported across the
country as voters headed to the polls and troops flooded the streets of the
capital.
The vote marks the culmination of a bloody election
campaign that is seen as a two-horse race between President Ashraf Ghani and
his bitter rival Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s chief executive.
The Taliban, who unleashed a string of bombings
during the two-month campaign, in recent days issued repeated warnings they
intend to attack polling centers.
