WORLD BRIEFING / AFGHANISTAN
Suicide bombers killed at least seven people in a police convoy in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, the Interior Ministry said.
Two suicide bombers on motorcycles blew themselves up near a group of police who had just parked their vehicles in the Girishk district, said Asadullah Sherzad, provincial police chief.
In Kabul, the Interior Ministry said two police, two soldiers and three civilians were killed; 20 people, 10 of them civilians were wounded, it said.
Helmand is one of the main strongholds of the Taliban and is the biggest drug-producing region of Afghanistan, the world’s top supplier of heroin.
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