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2 militants killed in premature blast in Afghanistan

Xinhua, February 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Two militants had been killed and another injured in a blast in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, sources said on Tuesday.

"The militants tried to plant an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along a main road in Naway-i-Barakzayi district on Monday, but the home-made device went off accidently, causing the casualties among the militants," a provincial security source told Xinhua.

The injured was detained and shifted by security forces to a hospital for treatment, he said.

The Taliban militant group has been using IEDs to target security forces, but the lethal weapon also inflicts casualties on civilians, according to military officials.

More than 3,540 civilians were killed and over 7,450 others injured in 2015 as the violence spread in different places of the country, according to a report released by United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kabul on Sunday.

Out of the casualties 713 civilians were killed and more than 1,650 were injured by IED attacks across the militancy-hit country last year, according to the report. Enditem