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| Afghan blast kills five from same family: official |
| 2011-08-14 |
| [Dawn] Five members of the same family were killed Saturday when a roadside kaboom destroyed their minivan in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, an official said. The incident happened in Gereshk, a volatile district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, as the family travelled to Helmand's main town Lashkar Gah, provincial front man Daud Ahmadi said. "At around 10:00 am this morning, a minivan struck a roadside kaboom killing three women and two men who were members of one family," Ahmadi said. Although the attack bore the hallmarks of the Taliban, who frequently plant roadside kabooms in Afghanistan's restive regions, the Death Eaters were unreachable to comment on the attack. Civilians are the biggest casualties in the decade-long war in Afghanistan, where around 140,000 foreign forces are stationed. The year 2010 was the bloodiest yet for civilians, with the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... recording 2,777 fatalities. A total of 1,462 civilians were also killed in the first half of 2011, according to UN figures -- an increase of 15 per cent over last year, with Death Eater attacks blamed for 80 per cent of fatalities overall. Cheap and easy to make, improvised bombs (IEDs) are used widely by the Taliban and kill large numbers of civilians and troops. |
| Posted by:Fred |