At least 15 people have been killed, including three police officers, and 31 others wounded after a suicide bomber targeted a crowded area in southwest Afghanistan.
The bomber struck in Farah province in an area where lorries were being loaded up with goods travelling to Herat, police said on Friday.
Rohul Amin, the Farah governor, said the deadly blast occurred about 50 metres from his compound.
More than a dozen were critically injured so "the death toll may rise", he added.
A doctor at the hospital in Farah said many of the wounded were children. Story by Al Jazeera