A car bomb exploded in a market in the southern Afghan province of Helmand today, killing at least eight people and wounding 17 others.
The explosives were inside a car parked in a weekly market.
"The target was civilians. There no foreign or Afghan forces in the area," provincial police chief Hussain Andiwal said.
Taliban insurgents planted hundreds of roadside bombs and carried out more than 140 suicide attacks in 2007, contributing to a record year of violence that killed nearly 6,000, about a third of them civilians.
