Eight suspects have been arrested after an explosion near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that killed up to nine people traveling in a minibus, officials said on Saturday. Officials revised down the estimate of the number killed in Friday morning’s blast about 12 miles south of Kandahar from a previous 18 given by the provincial government. The head of security in Kandahar, General Akram Khakrezwal, told Reuters nine people had been killed and two wounded in the explosion, which a spokesman for the provincial government said had been caused by an anti-tank mine rigged to a mortar bomb. Full Story