Kabul: A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 13 people and wounded several more in an attack on a convoy of Afghan soldiers in southern Helmand province late Sunday, an official said.
It was the latest in a series of deadly blows to Afghanistan’s beleaguered security forces and yet again underlined spiralling insecurity in the war-torn nation.
The deadly assault came days after a Taliban suicide bomber killed five civilians and wounded dozens of others, mainly children, when he detonated a car filled with explosives at a police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, Helmand’s capital.
The spokesperson for the Helmand governor Omar Zwak said that the blast comes just days after a deadly car bomb attack near the main police headquarters in Lashkar Gah. The dead and wounded were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. It is not yet clear who was behind the attack.
Members of the security forces were among the casualties, as well as shoppers who were preparing for the Eid religious festival.
The Taliban later said that they had planted the explosives at the gates of the bank in Lashkar Gah in the southern Afghan province.