From two to six people were killed and up to 20 wounded in a car bombing in downtown Kandahar on Thursday, according to reports at the administrative center of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.

"A car filled with explosives was blown up in front of the Nadim restaurant. At least two people died and 14 were injured in the explosion," provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazai told RIA Novosti.

Afghanistan's Pajhwok news agency said six were killed and 20 wounded.

Zazai said the death toll could rise as "it is now dark in the city and it is difficult to count" the number of those killed and injured.

Kandahar has often come under suicide bomber attacks. In August 2009, a bombing some blamed on Taliban militants killed more than 40 people in the city and injured over 60. The militants denied their involvement in the explosion.

KABUL, February 4 (RIA Novosti)