Story highlights Police say that children are among the dead

Official calls attack retaliation by the Taliban

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) A suicide bomber detonated his explosives Wednesday in a busy market in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, police said.

Children were among the dead, all of whom were civilians, said Sayed Masoud Yaqoobi, a local police spokesman.

He warned the number of casualties could rise as several people have suffered life-threatening injuries.

The blast hit the market in Almar, a district of Faryab province near the border with Turkmenistan, around 11:30 a.m. local time Wednesday, Yaqoobi said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.

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