2nd LD Writethru: Suicide bombing kills 14 in eastern Afghanistan

Some 14 people were killed and 11 others injured as a suicide bombing rocked Afghanistan's eastern province of Parwan on Monday, a provincial government spokesman said.

"The blast took place in Seyyagard District at around midday. The killed and injured were shifted to a hospital in the district, west of provincial capital of Charikar city," spokesman Wahid Seddiqi told Xinhua.

The bomber targeted an Afghan Local Police (ALP) patrol near the district office building in the relatively peaceful province, 55 km north of Kabul.

Those killed included six ALP officers and seven civilians in addition to the bomber, the official added.

The government established the ALP, or community police, in 2010 to protect villages and districts where army and police have limited presence.

"Some six police, including a local police commander, and five civilian passersby were wounded," he said.

The Taliban militant group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Some 3,545 civilians were killed and 7,457 injured as violence spread in different parts of the country last year, according to a UN mission report released earlier this month.

The report has attributed 62 percent of the casualties to the Taliban and other insurgent groups, 17 percent were blamed on security forces while the rest 21 percent of casualties were unattributable or caused by explosive remnants of past wars. Endit