Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 26th, 2010
Method: Animal Cart Bomb
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3 (children)
Injury Toll: 4
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Hindu reports:

The cart was abandoned in front a tribal chief’s residence in the centre of Kandahar city on Monday afternoon and was then remotely detonated, said Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the provincial governor of Kandahar province.
Haji Fazelluddin, the former governor of Spin Boldak district, was not hurt in the attack, but three of his nephews, aged 12 to 14, were killed, he said, adding that two police officers guarding the residence and two civilian passers—by were injured.
Mr. Fazelluddin is an influential tribal elder in the province and one of the main allies of President Hamid Karzai in the region.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Explosives loaded on donkey cart
Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan
Death Toll: 3 (children)
Injury Toll: 5
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (suspected Taliban)

"The explosives were loaded onto a donkey cart under a pile of fodder and was detonated remotely," tribal leader Fazluddin Agha told AFP.
"Three children were all my nephews... They were playing with the donkey cart, they had jumped on it (when it blew up outside his heavily-guarded home)."
Agha ran President Hamid Karzai's campaign during last year's presidential elections.
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The use of animals in insurgent attacks is rare but not unheard of.
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Taliban-led insurgents regularly deploy crude bombs to attack government, military and civilian targets in their insurgency, now well into its ninth year.

Kandahar is seen as the key battleground to reverse the escalating conflict, which is taking an increasing toll on foreign forces and Afghan civilians alike.