KABUL: Two roadside bombs in Afghanistan killed seven civilians, including at least three women and a child, police said on Tuesday.
A remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle parked on a bridge in southern Ghazni city detonated prematurely on Tuesday, killing two passers-by and wounding another five, including two children, police told AFP.
The blast took place just as a police convoy was about to pass, said Mohammad Osman, commander of Afghanistan's southeastern police zone.
“Two civilians were martyred and another five were wounded,” he said.
The bomber had been planning to trigger the device by remote control and was injured in the explosion and had been arrested, Osman said.
In a similar incident late Monday, a roadside bomb ripped through a civilian vehicle in Shindand district, in the western province of Herat, killing five civilians and injuring two, said Lal Mohammad Omarzai, the district chief.
“Three women, a man and a child were killed and two other women were hurt,”he said.
Omarzai blamed the attack on “enemies of Afghanistan”, a term used to refer to Taliban militants who have waged an increasingly bloody insurgency against Afghan and NATO forces since they were pushed out of power in late 2001. —AFP
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