Afghan Roadside Bomb Kills 5 In Bus
Baku, June 12 (AZERTAC). A total of 10 civilians were killed and another injured Tuesday morning when a minibus ran over a roadside bomb in Wardak province, 35 km west of capital city of Kabul, a provincial government spokesman said.
"A minibus touched off a roadside bomb in Afrasyab area of Sayyed Abad district at around 6:30 a.m. (0200 GMT), triggering a powerful blast that left 10 civilians, including three women, dead and injured one other," spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told Xinhua.
He said at least two children were among the victims, adding the bus was travelling from eastern Ghazni province to Kabul.
Shahid blamed Taliban insurgents for the attack in Wardak.
Taliban insurgents, who stepped up their attacks on Afghan and NATO-led troops since a spring offensive was launched in May in the war-ravaged country, has yet to make comments.
The insurgent group uses roadside bombs and suicide bombers in their attacks which also inflict casualties on civilians. Records kept by Xinhua reveals that more than 40 suicide attacks and over 50 roadside bombings have occurred in the country since the beginning of this year.
Five civilians were killed and two others injured when an ambulance en route to a hospital stepped up a roadside bomb in northern Sari Pul province on Monday.
A total of 579 Afghan civilians were killed and 1,216 other civilians were wounded in violence from January 1 to April 30 this year, according to figures released by UN mission in the country while some 3,021 Afghan civilians were killed in 2011 in the insurgency-hit country.
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