3 civilians killed in Afghanistan roadside bomb blast

Tuesday, 16 June 2015 2:22 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 16 June 2015 2:23 PM ]

A team of Afghan firefighters work to put out a fire at the site of a car bomb blast in central Kabul, May 19, 2015. (© AFP)

At least three civilians have been killed and 16 others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan’s southern province of Uruzgan, Press TV reports.

Brigadier General Tooryalai Abadyani, Uruzgan’s provincial police chief, told Press TV that the roadside bomb struck two vehicles packed with passengers in Deh Rahwod district in the restive province.

The vehicles were carrying passengers from the southern city of Kandahar to the central Daykundi Province, he added.

Mohammad Mayan, a spokesman for Uruzgan provincial governor, said three children were among the injured while six of them remain in critical condition.

No individual or group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack; however, Afghan officials often blame the Taliban militant group for such attacks.

An injured Afghan child receives treatment at a hospital after a car bomb attack near a district police headquarters in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, March 25, 2015. (© AFP)

Afghanistan’s Ulema (Islamic Clerics) Council on Monday called on Taliban militants to stop their attacks during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which will start on Thursday. The Taliban group reportedly dismissed the proposal, vowing to intensify attacks across Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is still grappling with insecurity some 14 years after the US and its NATO allies invaded the country. The attack removed the Taliban from power, but many parts of the country are still the scene of deadly bombings and armed clashes.

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