KANDAHAR: Taliban militants killed 32 people in an attack in southern Afghanistan while 10 others are missing, a member of parliament told AFP on Monday.   

Legislator Dad Mohammad Khan said the casualties from the attack in southern Helmand province on Sunday were all friends and relatives.   

"Yesterday morning in a Taliban attack, 32 of my relatives and friends were killed," he told AFP.   

He said the victims were killed while retrieving the bodies of five other men slain in an earlier attack.