[Tolo News] At least seven non-combatants were killed and eight others were maimed in a roadside kaboom blast on Saturday in southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, local officials said on Sunday.
The incident took place in Musa Qala district of the province, when a civilian vehicle struck a roadside kaboom killing 7 including two children and three women, said Omar Zwak, the provincial governor front man. The victims, all members of one family, were taken to a nearby hospital.
No group including the Taliban has yet grabbed credit for the blast.
Insurgents use roadside kabooms to target Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces, but most of the victims are civilians.
It comes as on Saturday four Afghan soldiers and two coppers were killed in a roadside mine blast in eastern Laghman province.