A suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people, including 10 school children, outside a market in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province, police say. Two foreign soldiers and a local policeman were among those killed in the blast on Monday.
The police said the attacker was targeting a passing US military patrol.
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.
