(15 Aug 2012) Hospitals in Afghanistan's Nimroz province on Wednesday continued treating civilians wounded in a series of suicide attacks the previous day.
Tuesday's brazen attacks - which involved as many as 14 bombers - killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens more, officials said.
Not all of the attackers were able to detonate their explosives belts and police killed and captured several of them, officials said
One explosion was outside a hospital near a busy market packed with people shopping for feasts at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which starts this weekend.
The governor of Nimroz said there were three blasts in the city - but accounts by officials differed amid the chaos in the remote area that has had relatively few insurgent attacks in the past year.
It was the first bombing of such magnitude in remote Nimroz in years.
The province, in the south-western corner of Afghanistan, is not as regularly beset by insurgent attacks as Helmand and Kandahar to the east
The bombings came during a campaign by Taliban insurgents and their allies to ratchet up attacks as international troops hand over security to Afghan forces.
NATO plans to withdraw most of its troops by the end of 2014.
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