阿富汗城市坎大哈发生自杀式袭击

A suicide bomber in a horse-drawn cart has killed eight people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.

阿富汗警方称，南部城市坎大哈一辆马车遭遇自杀式炸弹袭击，8人丧生。

Police officers apparently tried to stop the bomber but he was able to detonate引爆 his explosives near a hotel and local government office.

Five of the dead were in a nearby car, with three pedestrians行人 also killed. The cart was destroyed, leading police to initially最初，首先 think the bomb was inside it.

Previous attacks in Kandahar province have been blamed on Taliban insurgents叛乱分子.
 
Security guards at the hotel became suspicious of the man and ordered him to stop.

Reports said he was fired on by the guards.

The target of the bombing was not immediately known, said deputy provincial police chief Fazel Ahmad Sharzad.