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Taliban claims Afghanistan bombing

A suicide bombing has killed 16 people, including four police officers, in Afghanistan's southwestern province of Farah.

The Taliban movement claimed it carried out the attack.

The incident occurred in a bazaar near a police station in the Delaram district of Farah province.

16 civilians and six police officers were injured in the attack.

Local police said the dead bomber was wearing a burqa, and may have been a woman, but the Taliban said a man named Khalid carried out the bombing.