At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack at a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan, police said, raising an earlier toll.
”Some people died in the hospital. We have now 20 civilians and four police officers killed,” said Juma Gul Hemat, the police chief of Uruzgan province.
”In the hospital we have 27 people wounded,” he said.
The suicide attacker rammed a bomb-filled vehicle into a police van in the centre of a busy bazaar in the Deh Rawood area, about 400km south-west of the capital, Kabul.
Many of the casualties were shopkeepers, witnesses said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the insurgent Taliban movement has been behind a wave of such blasts across Afghanistan. — AFP
