Bomber kills 12 in Afghan town

The attack in the capital of southwestern province Farah came the day after Karzai was sworn in for another five years, pledging to try to bring peace to the nation and take over security from foreign forces in five years.

The Taliban-led insurgency seeking to topple the Western-backed government is at its deadliest in the eight years since U.S.-led troops ousted their regime in Kabul, slowly encroaching into once peaceful parts of the north and west.

The bomber attacked near the home of the provincial governor, damaging nearby buildings in an area where heavy trucks were being loaded with goods travelling from Farah to Herat, officials said.

“The bomber riding on a motorcycle detonated himself at a main square near my working office in my home,” provincial governor Rohul Amin Amin told AFP.

“Twelve people, 11 of them civilians and one of them a police officer, were killed,” he added.

About 37 other people, mostly civilians, were wounded in the bombing, the officials said. More than a dozen of the wounded were in a “critical condition” meaning the death toll could rise further, the governor said.

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