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Mortar attack injures 11 in Afghanistan

Xinhua, December 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 11 Afghan civilians were wounded after a mortar shell fired by militants struck a house in Marja district of the country's southern province of Helmand Monday night, police said on Tuesday.

"The incident took place early Monday night. The injured were shifted to a district hospital shortly after the incident. Some women and children were among the injured and that three of the victims had received life-threatening wounds," Shah Mohmood Ashina, provincial police spokesman, told Xinhua.

The police official blamed the Taliban militant group for the attack.

Helmand, notorious for poppy growing, is also a known Taliban stronghold.

Nearly 1,600 civilians were killed and more than 3,300 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in the first half of the year, according to UN mission figures. Endit