Kabul: An official said a suicide bomber wearing a burqa killed 15 people and wounded 22 others in a crowded market in southwestern Afghanistan.

Farah province official Younus Rasoul said the bomber struck in Dilaram district today. The dead included three policemen and 12 civilians.

Afghanistan is battling a raging Taliban-led insurgency.

At least 1,200 people - mostly militants - have died in insurgency-related violence in 2008,according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press.

The UN says more than 8,000 people, most of them militants, died in insurgency-related violence in 2007.

Source : PTI