A wounded man is assisted in a hospital after a car bombing rocked a sports stadium in Helmand Afghanistan on Friday
A suspected suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people and injured dozens more in a auto bomb attack on a sports stadium in the Afghan province of Helmand.
"A vehicle bomb blast happened at the entrance gate to the sports stadium in the first Police District of Lashkar Gah city", Helmand province's police spokesman Salam Afghan told AFP.
The auto was reportedly driven into a crowd outside the stadium.
"The suicide bomber detonated his auto bomb as spectators were leaving the stadium", Zwak said.
Photos posted on Twitter purportedly of the explosion showed a huge fire and a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.
He said at least 14 people had been killed and at least 47 wounded.
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Conflicting reports in local media suggest the death toll may be higher than so far confirmed.
The Italian NGO Emergency said 35 wounded had been taken to hospital in the city.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack.
Taliban and IS militants have ramped up attacks across the country in recent weeks even before the official start of the spring fighting season.
The explosion occurred after celebrations over the Afghan new year were winding down and revellers were on their way home, he added. While many foreign fighters have been active in the country, most are from neighbouring countries like Pakistan or Uzbekistan.
President Ashraf Ghani, whose government has been lambasted for its inability to protect ordinary Afghans, condemned the attack against "innocent people", according to a statement.
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