KABUL, May 4 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 12 people
have been killed in a roadside mine explosion in the
southeastern Afghan province of Zabul, a local administration
head said on Monday.
The explosion occurred as a tractor pulling a trailer
passed by. The dead all civilians include four women and two
children. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the
blast.
Taliban militants are active in Zabul, a sparsely
populated region bordering on Pakistan, freely moving between
the porous border.
Zabul was also the focus of other attacks when early on
Monday two Taliban militants were killed as the bomb they were
trying to plant accidently detonated.
And later on, Taliban militants attacked a group of
construction workers, who were repairing a bridge, damaged in
an earlier attack. Six security guards, who tried to protect
the workers along with two passers-by, were killed as a result.
In addition, militants blew up a convoy escorting the
mayor of Mihtarlam, the provincial capital of the Laghman
province, in eastern Afghanistan. The official, his three
bodyguards, a driver and four passers-by were killed in the
explosion.
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