KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A security official says a suicide car bombing has killed four people — two civilians and two policemen — in southern Afghanistan.
Police spokesman for southern Helmand province, Shamem Noorzai, says Wednesday’s attack took place in the Gareshk district.
He says the bomber targeted a police patrol and blew up his car next to a police vehicle in a crowded area of the town of Gareshk.
Noorzai says the explosion also wounded three civilians and a police officer.
Helmand’s provincial spokesman, Omer Zwak, says another attack, this one in Gramsir district, killed two people when the fuel truck they were driving in struck a roadside bomb.
Afghan insurgents are planting an increasing number of bombs across the country in a campaign to retake territory as foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan.