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and Afghan government.Seven women, five children and two men died when their vehicle detonated an bomb in Daikundi province, interior ministry front man Tareq Arian said in a statement.
Three children were also maimed, he added, blaming the Taliban for the blast.
Nasrullah Ghori — the front man for the governor of Daikundi — told AFP the victims were travelling to a shrine when their minibus struck the bomb.
No group has grabbed credit for the blast, but roadside kabooms have been a weapon of choice for the Taliban.
"Deliberate attacks" targeting civilians killed or maimed more than 800 civilians in Afghanistan during the first half of 2020, according to a UN report released in July.
The violence comes as Taliban and Afghan government negotiators are meeting in Doha, where they are trying to find a way to end 19 years of war.
Despite calls for a ceasefire, the Taliban have refused to halt their violence, seeing it as key to leverage at the negotiating table.
The blast came as the head of the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, Abdullah Abdullah
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president..., kicked off the second day of a three-day visit to Pakistain.