.(AKI) - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people, including two policemen, and wounded 27 others in a town in south-western Afghanistan on Monday. The attacker was believed to have targeted a police convoy in a crowded bazaar in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province.In a separate incident in Ghazni province, Taliban gunmen killed district chief Abdul Rahim Desiwal, while in the northern Baghlan province two Taliban militants were killed while planting a bomb.
Helmand province is one of Afghanistan's most volatile provinces because it is the country's largest opium-producing area, accounting for up to two-thirds of the national crop.