Roadside bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians: Official
20 April, 2008
KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb hit a civilian vehicle Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing three people and wounding another, an official said.
The bomb hit the car in the Shahjoy district of Zabul province, in an area frequently patrolled by Afghan and international troops, said Shahjoy district chief Qayum Khan.
Khan said the "terrorist act" killed three civilians and wounded another. He accused the Taliban of planting the bomb.
Another roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying police trainers from the American private security firm DynCorp near the Pakistan border, said Spin Boldak border security commander Gen. Abdul Raziq Khan. No one was wounded in the attack.
In eastern Khost province, two suicide bomb attacks targeted international forces on Friday in Sabari district, but no one was hurt, said Wazir Pacha, spokesman for the provincial police chief.
Six years after the hard-line Taliban regime’s ouster, hostilities show little sign of easing. The fighting is most intense in the south.
More than 1,000 people, mostly militants, have died this year in insurgency-related violence, according to an Associated Press tally of figures from Afghan and Western officials.
The latest violence comes a day after a roadside bomb attack on a patrol of Dutch soldiers killed the son of the Netherlands’ top military officer.
Lt. Dennis van Uhm, the 23-year-old son of Dutch military commander Gen. Peter van Uhm, was one of two Dutch soldiers killed Friday in the explosion in restive Uruzgan province, spokesman Lt. Gen. Freek Meulman said. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.
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