Roadside bombing kills 11 civilians in southern Afghan province
QALAT, Afghanistan. July 2. KAINFORM Eleven civilians were killed as a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in Zabul province south of Afghanistan on Saturday, deputy to provincial governor Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar said. Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
"The bloody incident occurred at around 07:00 a.m. (local time) on Saturday when a vehicle carrying an estimate of 11 people touched off a roadside bomb in Zanzir area of Shamulzay district. As a result all passengers aboard were killed," Rasoulyar told Xinhua.
According to official, all the victims were Afghan refugees who returned from Pakistan and were traveling to their hometown in neighboring Ghazni province.
Saturday incident is the third roadside bombing attack that inflected casualties on civilians in insurgency-hit country since Thursday morning.
A total of 20 civilians were killed when their passenger bus hit a roadside bomb in southwestern Nimroz province on Thursday while six other civilians including four children also lost their lives in a similar incident in southern Helmand province earlier on the same day Thursday. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version