In Afghanistan, three people including a policeman were killed and twelve others were injured when a suicide car bomber detonated himself near a bank in southern province of Kandahar. The city police Chief Khan Mohammad said the explosion occurred near police vehicles in front of a bank where locals said police went to collect their salaries. Mohammad Afzal, a doctor at the city’s main hospital said that 12 people have been injured, mostly police. Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is at the heart of nine-year Taliban militancy. NATO-led coalition has launched a series of operations in the area and has claimed progress but warned that success can be fragile. Earlier this month, four policemen and two children were injured in a car bomb close to the police headquarters in the same city.