Kabul: At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide attack in near Afghanistan city of Kabul, sources said on Wednesday.
The attacker targeted a foot patrol of Norwegian and US troops filming interviews in a fruit market in Maymana, the capital of northwestern Faryab province.
“A suicide bomber targeted a group of foreign friends” near a park where a meeting of locals was taking place, provincial governor Abdul Haq Shafaq told the AFP news agency.
Among the dead were three foreign soldiers, four Afghan police, an Afghan interpreter for the US soldiers and six Afghan civilians including two women and two children.
Another 30 Afghan civilians and four US soldiers were wounded in the attack.
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