[Dawn] Insurgents threw hand grenades into two houses in the province of Kandahar, killing a child in one and wounding six people -- including a woman and a child -- in the other, a local official in southern Afghanistan said.
The Kandahar governor's front man, Zelmai Ayubi, said the attack occurred Friday morning in the district of Zhari, a Taliban heartland west of Kandahar city at the centre of the 30,000-soldier US surge earlier this year.
Ayubi said authorities were investigating why the two houses were targeted. He said the maimed had been taken to a nearby Nato base for medical help, and that two of the maimed were at death's door. |