A body is loaded into a pick up truck after a suicide bomber kills at least 16 people in Northern Afghanistan.<br/> <br />Local authorities say a man wearing an explosive vest blew himself up killed 10 police men and six civilians.<br/> <br />No one is claiming responsibility for the attack that also wounded at least 20.<br/> <br />Despite the presence of hundreds of thousands of Afghan and foreign troops fighting the Taliban-led insurgency, violence rages in Afghanistan more than a decade after the US - led war was launched in 2001.
