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KABUL — An official says a suicide bomber has killed 15 people and wounded 22 others in a crowded market in southwestern Afghanistan.
Farah province official Younus Rasoul said the bomber struck in Dilaram district Thursday. The dead included three policemen and 12 civilians.
Afghanistan is battling a raging Taliban-led insurgency.
At least 1,200 people — mostly militants — have died in insurgency-related violence in 2008, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press. The UN says more than 8,000 people, most of them militants, died in insurgency-related violence in 2007.
