From out newly minted Taliban partners in peace.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Three separate explosions killed 11 people and wounded dozens of others in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the volatile region.

In the first attack, four children and a policeman were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a police checkpoint in Kandahar city, said Zalmay Ayoubi, a spokesman for the Kandahar governor.

He said the bomber’s target was the police checkpoint, but his bomb went off prematurely. Sixteen others, including six children and three policemen, were wounded.