Five Afghan police have been killed by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Kandahar. Provincial Police Chief Sher Mohammed Zazai says the policemen were riding in a vehicle that struck a roadside bomb Saturday in the Khakrez district, according to a report of the Associated Press. Zazai also said that police have identified a 13-year-old boy as the suicide bomber who walked into a wedding celebration Wednesday in a village near Kandahar and detonated his vest of explosives. Zazai said 56 people were killed and 24 others were wounded in that blast. Initial reports were that at least 40 people died in the explosion.
