South Afghanistan suicide blast kills 10 - police

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with explosives in a crowded market in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 civilians and wounding 13, a provincial police chief said.

Uruzgan province police chief Juma Gul Himat said the bomber's vest exploded after he was fired on by troops while trying to attack a convoy of Afghan security forces. A media officer for NATO-led forces confirmed that 10 civilians had been reported killed in a suicide bomb strike in the area.

(Reporting by Ismail Sameem in KANDAHAR and Hamid Shalizi and Peter Graff in KABUL; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Paul Tait) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: here)