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Roundup: 2 roadside bomb blasts kill 4, wound 9 in Afghanistan

Xinhua, April 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Four people have been killed and nine others injured as two roadside bomb blasts rocked the eastern Khost and southern Helmand provinces over the past two days, officials confirmed Wednesday.

In the first violent blast which happened in the eastern Khost province on Tuesday evening, four people had lost their lives, said the provincial government in a statement sent to media. "A civilian vehicle ran over an Improvised Explosive Device ( IED) planed by militants on a road in Musa Khel district, Khost province on Tuesday evening killing four people on the spot and injuring four others,"the statement asserted.

Among those killed included two children and two policemen while the injured persons included two police personnel, one woman and a child, the statement added.

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.

In a similar incident which occurred in the southern Helmand province on Wednesday, five people sustained injuries as a roadside bomb targeted police vehicle in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah 555 km south of Kabul on Wednesday, deputy to provincial police chief, Padshah Gul said. "Terrorists planted explosive device on a motorbike and exploded it next to police vehicle in Babaji area of Lashkar Gah city at 12:30 p.m. local time. As a result, five people including four civilians and a police constable were injured,"Gul told Xinhua.

Although no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, the official pointed finger at the Taliban militants, saying the armed outfit by organizing such offensives attempts to terrorize people.

Civilians often bear the brunt of conflict in Afghanistan as nearly 3,700 civilians had been killed and more than 6,800 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in 2014, according to official figures released in February by UN mission in the country.

Taliban-led militancy and conflict typically increase in spring and summer in Afghanistan commonly known as fighting season among the war-weary Afghans. Endi