Bomb attacks kill six in Afghanistan

Asian Defense News: KABUL (AFP) - – A string of roadside bomb attacks killed six civilians and wounded five children in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.

Six civilians were killed in two separate bomb explosions in the southern province of Helmand on Saturday, the interior ministry said in a statement.

They were killed when they drove over the devices, it said, blaming the attacks on insurgents.

Bomb attacks kill six in Afghanistan

In a separate but similar bomb blast five children were wounded in Herat province, in the west of the country, it said.

The children were playing in Angil district when the buried device went off, it said.

The statement did not give more details about the bombings but it blamed the attacks on Taliban insurgents.

Improvised bombs are a favourite weapon of the militants fighting to topple the Western-backed government in Kabul.

There are about 120,000 troops under NATO and US command in Afghanistan battling the Taliban-led insurgency now in its ninth year, with troop numbers expected to swell to 150,000 within months.