The death toll from two days of militant bombings neared 140 _ the deadliest spate in post-Taliban Afghanistan _ after a suicide car bomb exploded in a crowded southern market, killing 38 Afghans, officials said.
The marketplace bombing Monday, which targeted a Canadian military convoy, came one day after Afghanistan's deadliest insurgent attack since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. The toll from that blast _ set off in a crowd watching a dog fight _ rose to more than 100.
The back-to-back bombings in Kandahar province could serve as a warning that insurgents have turned to collateral civilian deaths to further weaken the Kabul government. Though attacks …
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