Suicide attack kills child in Afghanistan

KABUL: A suicide bomber attacked a car carrying a provincial head of Afghanistan's intelligence agency on Monday, wounding the spy and killing a child in the north of the country, police said.

The bomber detonated next to a car in which the National Directorate of Security (NDS) official was travelling at 8:20am (3:50 GMT) in Maymanah in Faryab province, Lal Mohammad, police spokesman for the northern region, told AFP.

"The chief of NDS was going to his office when the attacker, a person wearing a suicide vest, detonated near his car. "One child is killed and six other people, including the provincial chief of NDS, are injured," said Lal Mohammad.

He had said initially that a "number of civilians" were killed. (AFP)