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KABUL, Afghanistan — Three suicide bombers struck the center of a provincial capital in southwestern Afghanistan on Tuesday as people were thronging the bazaar to shop for the coming Muslim holiday that ends the month of Ramadan, killing at least 29 people, according to provincial officials, who said the numbers of dead were likely to rise.
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The attack on Nimroz Province’s capital city of Zaranj was the most violent in the country since the beginning of the month of Ramadan, which is holy to Muslims. The bombers struck different buildings but all of them were near the central bazaar, crammed with people buying for the Id al-Fitr holiday, which falls this weekend as Ramadan concludes. “The reason so many people were killed and injured is because everyone was in the bazaar shopping for Id, and at this time of day the bazaar is crowded,” said Nadir Khan Baluch, the deputy head of the Provincial Council.
“There are no foreign forces here in Zaranj, the security forces are all Afghan,” he said.
The identities and motives of the bombers were not immediately clear.
Nimroz lies in Afghanistan’s far southwestern corner and has a long border with Pakistan and another with Iran. Its population is majority ethnic Baluch.
There were six attackers, but three were shot by the police before they were able to detonate their explosives, said Mr. Baluch.
They were part of a group of 10 bombers, whom police began apprehending on Monday night after intelligence tips, Mr. Baluch said. The police arrested two as they tried to enter the city and the pair led them to a safe house where they found two more and some explosives, but the other six appear to have been hidden in a different place and eluded the security forces.
A member of Parliament from Nimroz, Farida Hamidi, blamed the attack on a lack of sufficient security forces and poor security on the borders.
Witnesses said chaos engulfed the small provincial hospital as relatives rushed to find their loved ones and some carried them in their arms into the emergency room.
“I heard three loud explosions followed by gunfire, the city has been locked down, nobody can go to the bazaar,” said Mohammed Akbar Sharifi, the head of the provincial agriculture department, who spoke by cellphone from the hospital where he had brought his nephew who was wounded.
“Hello doctor, this is my nephew, please help him,” he could be heard saying before hanging up.
The doctor could be heard replying: “We have so many in a critical situation, and there are many more in bad shape, we are helping them, we will come to you, too.”
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