1st LD Writethru: Grenade attack injures 11 in N. Afghanistan

Eleven civilians were injured in a grenade attack in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on Tuesday, police said.

"One man hurled a hand grenade near a main bus station in Bandar-e-Kabul locality of provincial capital Kunduz city in the morning. Afghan National Police (ANP) has launched an investigation into the case and efforts were underway to arrest the culprit behind the attack," Mahfozullah Akbari, police spokesman of the 808 Spin Zaar Police Zone based in the region, told Xinhua.

Following the blast the ANP personnel shifted the wounded people to Kunduz Regional Hospital where one of the injured remained in critical condition, he said.

In a separate incident, on Monday, three children were killed and six teenagers wounded after they touched off an unexploded ordnance in a village in neighboring Charhar Dara district, according to Akbari.

More than 3,490 civilians were killed and over 7,920 others injured in conflict-related incidents across Afghanistan last year, according to figures released by the UN mission in the country.

Land mines, unexploded ordnances and explosive remnants of war also frequently cause casualties among the Afghans elsewhere in the country. Endit