A suicide bombing ripped through a crowded market in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 47, a hospital official said. The suicide bomber carrying explosives walked into the market opposite a police station in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, and blew himself up, said Ghulam Muheddin, the provincial governor's spokesman. Hanif Khan, a local hospital official, said the blast killed 17 persons and wounded 47, six critically, according to a report of the Associated Press.
