KABUL (Reuters) - Seventeen civilians, most of them children, and four police were killed in a suicide attack in a bazaar on Sunday in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan, police said.
The bomber targetted a police vehicle in a bazaar in DehRawud district, the provincial police chief told Reuters.
"Seventeen civilians and four policemen died in the attack.Thirty seven more civilians and five police have been wounded,"Juma Khan Himat said by phone, adding the death toll couldrise.
Himat said most of the civilian victims were children.
He blamed Taliban insurgents for being behind the attack,part of a rising tide of violence in Afghanistan, where themilitants largely rely on such tactics as part of theircampaign against the foreign troops and the Afghan government.
The Taliban could not be immediately contacted for comment.
(Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Valerie Lee)
