A bomb explosion at a market in northern Afghanistan has killed nine people on Monday, police say. An official from a provincial council was among the dead in the Ghormuch district of Faryab province. A local doctor told the (BBC) at least ten people had been injured. At the time of the explosion, the market was busy and filled with shoppers. No group has said it carried out the attack as yet, but Taliban attacks traditionally increase after a winter lull when bad weather restricts the movement of fighters.