A bomb blast at an Afghan university killed two students on Saturday in Kandahar, one of the most troubled places in Afghanistan, police said. One of the dead was also secretary to the police chief of Kandahar province. "The blast took place near the engineering faculty of Kandahar University and has killed two students, one of them my office secretary," police chief General Abdul Razaq told AFP.
A second explosion, which happened after police cordoned off the area, injured three people including two policemen, Razaq said.