KABUL (Reuters) – A automobile bomb in the south Afghan city of Kandahar killed at least nine people and wounded nineteen on Sunday, the presidential house pronounced in a statement.

The Kandahar province’s media office pronounced five police officers and two civilians were between the dead.

“(The) explosion took place near a bustling selling area of (the) city,” it pronounced on the official Twitter feed.

Last year, fighting in Afghanistan killed more than 3,000 civilians, the United Nations pronounced on Saturday, the fifth year in a row that the number of municipal deaths has risen.

Suicide attacks carried out by insurgents and roadside mines were the greatest killers of non-combatants, the U.N. inform said.

“Once more, enemies of the people of Afghanistan showed, by rising such a militant attack in a swarming place in Kandahar city, their animosity toward the trusting people of Afghanistan,” President Hamid Karzai pronounced in the palace’s statement.

(Reporting by Daniel Magnowski and Mirwais Harooni; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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