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4 killed in attack in Afghanistan

From Matiullah Mati, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: 19 people are injured in separate attack in Kandahar
  • 21 people are injured in the attack
  • The suicide bomber uses a Toyota Corolla in the attack

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a bank in southwest Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four people, a governor's spokesman said.

Twenty-one others were injured in the attack in Helmand province, including 10 Afghan soldiers and five police officers.

The attack was carried out in a Toyota Corolla, said Dawood Ahmadi, the spokesman for the Helmand governor.

In another attack Saturday, 19 people were injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police post in Kandahar, authorities said.