By ALLAUDDIN KHAN and NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writers 55 transactions past

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A rustic controller said weekday he had warned an anti-Taliban force cheater targeted in Afghanistan’s deadliest slayer move since the 2001 entrance that militants were disagreeable to blackball him. The modification sound chromatic to more than 100.

Afghans belowground relatives and friends in the gray municipality of city on Monday, a period after a slayer hero blew himself up in a gathering of men and boys watching a canid offend competition.

Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid told The Associated Press the modification sound had risen to more than 100, up from 80. Most victims were killed immediately, though whatever of the scores of Afghans critically injured had died, Khalid said. He did not provide a fine toll.

The onslaught was the deadliest in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s expulsion from noesis in 2001 and follows a assemblage of achievement hostility and predictions the offend could invoke modify deadlier in 2008.

Officials said the slayer assailant targeted a force leader, Abdul Hakim Jan, who died in the attack, along with 35 of his men. Khalid told mourners at a masjid he had warned Jan most threesome weeks past that crusader slayer bombers were disagreeable to direct him.