[REUTERS] A jacket wallah on a cycle of violence killed at least 15 people and maimed 38 near a busy marketplace in northwest Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.No one grabbed credit, but Talibs have regularly use suicide bombers to attack Afghan government and foreign troops in the area.
The main target was believed to be a nearby police checkpoint in Almar, a district of Faryab province which borders Turkmenistan, local officials added.
Five of the dead were Afghan security force personnel and the rest civilians, Faryab's acting governor, Satar Barez, said.
"Security forces were at their checkpoint in Almar's main market when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives," Barez said.