50 dead from Afghan wedding bombing

More victims have died from a suicide attack this week on a wedding in southern Afghanistan, police said Saturday, raising the toll from the blast to 50 dead.

Kandahar police chief General Sardar Mohammad Zazay told AFP that more people have died in hospital since the Wednesday evening attack on a wedding party, which relatives said was attended by members of an anti-Taliban militia.

Another 87 people were wounded in the attack, Zazay said, carried out in a part of Kandahar province where US-led troops are massing to drive insurgents from their fiefdom.

Kandahar is the focus of a massive build-up by US-led military forces trying to drive the Taliban from their homeland and end their bloody insurgency, which began after the 2001 US-led invasion brought down their hardline regime.