1st LD Writethru: 4 killed in roadside bombing in Afghanistan
Xinhua, April 29, 2015 Adjust font size:
Four people were killed while four others wounded in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province on Tuesday, said the provincial government on Wednesday.
"A civilian vehicle touched off an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along a road in Musa Khel district on Tuesday, causing a blast and the explosion left four people killed and four others wounded," it said in a statement issued here.
Among those killed were two children and two policemen while the injured included two police personnel, one woman and a child, the statement added.
The statement did not reveal whether the police personnel aboard the vehicle were off duty.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
The Taliban militant group has largely been using home-made IEDs to launch suicide attacks and roadside bombings against security forces but the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians.
Nearly 3,700 civilians were killed and more than 6,800 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in 2014, according to official figures released by UN mission in the country. Endi