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At least 35 people have been killed after a series of explosions rocked the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman has said.
Saturday's attacks also left 45 people, including policemen and civilians, injured.
Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Kabul, the Afghan capital, said: "We spoke to the spokesman of the governor to the city of Kandahar [and] it appears to be a coordinated attack.
"One explosion happened near the police headquarters. The second one was heard near the provincial guest house in an area where also President [Hamid] Karzai's half brother [Ahmad Wali Karzai] lives.
"Now he [Wali Karzai] is in Kabul; we did speak to him and he did not have much more information than that.
"The third explosion happened near the main prison in Kandahar. There was a forth explosion after that. Some reports say it was close to a mosque, others say it was close to the prison.
"The one in front of the prison was huge, some of the buildings there have collapsed. Rescue operations have to wait till sunlight to see if there are more bodies under the rubble. Because the explosion happened at 8pm local time most people were at home so we expect the death toll to rise.
Al Jazeera's correspondent said among the victims were at least nine policemen and hospital sources said three children [were killed].
She said the aim of the attack was to inflict damage on the prison to allow prisoners to escape.
The prison was reinforced with cement blocks after a suicide attack in 2008 blew open the prison gates.
High alert
Kandahar hospital was put on full alert and appealed for blood donations.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the series of attacks.
A statement on the group's website said the attacks were to serve as a "message" to General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander, who is planning an operation in Kandahar against the fighters.
Kandahar is Afghanistan's third biggest city, after Kabul and Herat, and was the spiritual capital of the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until their overthrow in the 2001 US-led invasion.
PHOTO CAPTION
A screen grab shows broken glass at the site of a bomb blast in Kandahar March 13, 2010.
Al-Jazeera
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