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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: 11 dead as blasts mar Afghan New Year AFP - Sunday, March 22 KABUL (AFP) - - Four bomb blasts struck Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding several more as the country marked the first day of its New Year amid a spike in deadly insurgent attacks. ADVERTISEMENT The extremist Taliban militia claimed responsibility for the deadliest blast, in which six people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a minivan packed with explosives at a police checkpoint in eastern Nangarhar province. A policeman and five civilians were killed, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement condemning the blast. "Enemies of Afghanistan, by conducting this terrorist action on a day that Afghans celebrate New Year in peace, showed that they don't have any aim except to destroy Afghanistan," he said. The attacker had apparently wanted to enter the bustling city of Jalalabad to carry out the attack but was stopped at a checkpoint set up as part of increased security measures for the New Year, local officials said. Hours later, a remote-controlled bomb blew up in nearby Khost province among hundreds of men gathered around a small hilltop shrine for picnics to mark the start of the New Year in Afghanistan, which uses the solar calendar. Two people were killed and four wounded in that attack, provincial police chief Abdul Qayoom Bakizoi told AFP. The bomb, planted in a road, blew up as a four-by-four vehicle drove over it, he said. The attack took place near a shrine about seven kilometres (four miles) southeast of the city of Khost, where men had gathered in dispersed groups, perhaps accounting for the low casualty toll. Witnesses said it appeared to have been a suicide blast, with at least one body torn apart. There was no claim of responsibility. Two bombs planted in roads also exploded in the southern province of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold that sees regular attacks, a government official said. One, apparently targeting the Afghan army, killed a civilian passer-by, said provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayoobi. The other bomb hit a civilian vehicle, killing two people and wounding three others, he said. Such bombings are a hallmark of the insurgency led by the Taliban, who were in government here between 1996 and 2001. They came after a series of clashes and attacks on Friday that left about 60 people dead, in one of the bloodiest days for Afghanistan this year. Four Canadian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed in two bombings in Kandahar on Friday, the Canadian military said. They were serving in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force deployed to Afghanistan to help the fragile government tackle the spiralling violence. Another ISAF soldier died in a separate "hostile incident" in the south, the alliance force said, without revealing the soldier's nationality. The Afghan army reported meanwhile that its men killed 13 Taliban fighters in an operation late Friday and arrested 25 suspects in southern Helmand province. In other incidents already reported on Friday, 19 Afghan security forces were killed in clashes with Taliban militants and a suicide attack; a district chief died in a battle; and 19 militants were killed in clashes and operations. Despite Saturday's attacks, tens of thousands of Afghans welcomed the New Year at a packed gathering in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, in an event that passed off without incident. Last year was the deadliest of the insurgency since the hardline Taliban regime was ousted in 2001 and the growing violence has prompted Washington, one of Kabul's key allies, to rethink its "war on terror" strategy. 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