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Afghanistan buffeted by suicide bombings Tue Jan 17, 12:09 AM ET

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghanistan was reeling from one of its bloodiest days since the fall of the Taliban in 2001 after suicide bombers killed at least 24 people in two separate attacks.

The bombings -- in the town of Spin Boldak near the Pakistani border and the southern city of Kandahar -- heightened fears that tactics used by Iraqi insurgents were increasingly being imported into Afghanistan.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan condemned the attacks, which came just one day after a Canadian diplomat and two Afghans were killed in a suicide bombing near Kandahar.

"The secretary general condemns these attacks, which represent an unacceptable assault upon the peace process," a UN statement said on Tuesday.

An attacker riding a motorcycle blew himself up as a crowd left a wrestling match in Spin Boldak, killing 20 people and wounding at least 20 others, Kandahar province governor Asadullah Khalid and witnesses said.