Suicide car bomb attack kills 14

A suicide car bombing has killed 14 people, including 10 Afghan police officers, as the Taliban announced it had launched a large-scale attack on the capital of southern Helmand province. The armed group has expanded its footprint across most of the province in recent months and has been at the gates of Lashkar Gah city, […]

A suicide car bombing has killed 14 people, including 10 Afghan police officers, as the Taliban announced it had launched a large-scale attack on the capital of southern Helmand province.
The armed group has expanded its footprint across most of the province in recent months and has been at the gates of Lashkar Gah city, the provincial capital, for weeks.
According to police official Haji Marjan, the vehicle explosion happened at about 11:30am after the Taliban had earlier targeted police checkpoints across the city.
Marjan said at least 10 police officers, including his brother, and four civilians died in the attack in the Mukhtar area of Lashkar Gah.