According to reports, thirteen people have died in two attacks in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. In the first, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed seven civilians and two police officers in a bazaar in Kajaki district. NATO said some of its personnel are among the wounded. In a second attack, claimed by the Taliban, a roadside bomb killed a local intelligence official and at least two others in Nad-e-Ali district.1

• 1. “Afghanistan blast kills 13 in Helmand Province”, BBC, January 18, 2012 at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16620589