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1 killed, 16 injured in S. Afghan suicide bombing
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ONE militant was killed while 16 people were wounded Saturday evening in a suicide attack in southern Afghan province of Helmand, said a provincial government spokesman.
"A militant detonated his car bomb after police tried to intercept him near a checkpoint in western outskirts of provincial capital Lashkar Gah city. The bomber was killed on the spot and the blast which took place at around 7:30 p.m. (local time) left 14 civilians and two police wounded," spokesman Omar Zwak told Xinhua.
The target of the attack remained unknown, the source said, adding the injured were shifted to nearly hospitals where four of the injured remained in critical conditions.
The government troops immediately cordoned off the area shortly after the blast.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban insurgent group, in most cases, was responsible for such suicide bombings.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group launched an annual rebel offensive against Afghan government forces and more than 44,000 NATO-led troops stationed in the country in mid-May.
More than 1,560 civilians were killed and nearly 3,290 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in the first six months of 2014, according to official figures released by the UN mission in the country.
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