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Police say car bomb in Afghan market kills 8


    KABUL (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a market in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Wednesday killing at least eight people and wounding 17, police said.

    "The explosives were inside a car parked in a weekly marketwhere a sizable number of people were buying and sellinggoods," said provincial police chief Hussain Andiwal.

    "The target was civilians. There no foreign or Afghanforces in the area," he said.

    (Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Robert Birsel)