KABUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six police and an Indian engineer on Thursday in southeastern Afghanistan, a top provincial official said.

The attack happened as a convoy carrying a group of Indian road engineers was passing in a district of Nimroz province, Governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told Reuters.

"In this attack six Afghan police and an Indian engineer have been killed," he said. (Reporting by Mirwais Afghan; Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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