Ten people including three NATO troops were killed and 30 injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the city hall in the town of Maimanah in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province on Wednesday, Afghan Tolo TV channel reported.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
“The attack was carried out by a lion of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Abdul Ghafar, a resident of northern Saripul province, when he detonated his explosives belt … near the municipality,” the Taliban reported on its Voice of Jihad website.