Two dead, 26 hurt in Afghan suicide blast

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a police truck outside a bakery in southern Afghanistan today, killing at least two civilians, officials said.

The attacker was apparently waiting in the car at the gates of the police headquarters just outside a bakery where officers regularly buy bread in the morning in Lashkar Gah, the main city in Helmand province, said provincial Police Chief Kamaluddin Sherzai.