Suicide car bomb in Afghanistan kills 18: police

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into a police vehicle at a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 18 people, a police commander told AFP.

Five of the dead in the attack in Uruzgan province were policemen and the remainder were civilians, provincial police chief Juma Gul Hemat said.

"About 18 to 20 people have died and more than 35 others have been injured. The number is likely to rise," he said.

The police vehicle was destroyed in the attack in the Deh Rawood area, which took place about 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of Kabul.

"The bombing was against a police car in the middle of the bazaar," local resident Abdul Habib, told AFP. "There have been lots of people killed and injured."

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