A suicide bomber has killed at least 12 people, including 10 school children, outside a market in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province, police say.
They said the attacker was targeting a passing US military patrol on Monday but it was unclear if there were any American casualties.
General Zelmia Oryakhail, the provincial police chief of the province, said the bomber was on a motorbike and detonated his explosives outside the market in Samkani district as American forces passed.
He said a local school had just let students out for lunch.
Oryakhail said 15 other students were wounded. He did not say how old they were.
