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| A suicide bomber has blown himself up in southern Afghanistan, killing 10 civilians, Afghan police have said. | A suicide bomber has blown himself up in southern Afghanistan, killing 10 civilians, Afghan police have said. |
| The attacker detonated his explosives as a convoy of foreign troops was passing through Gereshk district in Helmand province, an official said. | The attacker detonated his explosives as a convoy of foreign troops was passing through Gereshk district in Helmand province, an official said. |
| Helmand has seen some of the worst violence of the Taleban-led insurgency. The attack comes a day after Nato and Afghan forces said they had driven Taleban fighters from areas close to the southern city of Kandahar. | |
| There is no word on any military casualties in the latest attack. | There is no word on any military casualties in the latest attack. |
| "The attacker walked up to a Nato convoy patrolling in a market in Girishk district and detonated explosives strapped to his body," provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal told AFP news agency. | |
| There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Taleban militants, ousted from power in late 2001 by a US-led invasion, have claimed almost all similar attacks in the past. | |
| Helmand, Afghanistan's main opium producing region, has been a hotbed for Taleban activity in recent years and is the only place in Afghanistan where the ousted militia have control of a handful of districts. |