Suicide car bomb attack killed 12 Afghan policemen and a child in the southern town of Lashkar Gah on Sunday (31 / 7).
The bombing occurred near the office of chief of police in the provincial capital, and seems aimed at a joint patrol of police and Afghan army.
The interior ministry condemned the attack in a statement and described it as anti-Islamic and inhuman.
The statement said 12 policemen and a child were killed.
"The bombing also wounded 12 people, consisting of nine policemen and three civilians," said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the governor of Helmand Province.
The attack came after a series of assassinations of high officials in Afghanistan, including the brother of President Hamid Karzai.
It happened just days after a suicide attacker with a gun killing 19 people, mostly children.
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