Roadside explosve kills 11 members of Afghan family
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Eleven members of an Afghan family, mostly women and children, were killed Friday when their car strike a roadside explosve while they were travelling for an rendezvous rite in a country’s flighty east.
The conflict occurred in a Mohammad Agha district of Logar range though no belligerent organisation has so distant claimed responsibility.
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“The explosve struck their Toyota sedan when they were going for an rendezvous ceremony,” pronounced Logar Governor Mohammad Halim Fidai.
“The victims enclosed 5 women and 5 children.” Provincial authorities blamed a Taliban, who launched their annual “spring offensive” final month, for a killings.
The Taliban were not immediately reachable for comment, though roadside bombs have been a militants’ arms of choice in their fight opposite unfamiliar and Afghan confidence forces. The bombs also increasingly kill and wound civilians.
Some 987 child casualties were reported from conflict-related incidents in a initial 4 months of 2017, a record high for a duration given a United Nations began documenting such cases.
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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan uttered alarm when 5 boys from one family were killed this month by an unexploded trebuchet turn in Laghman province.
“The children were personification outward their home and found a trebuchet round, expected dismissed during fighting progressing in a day,” pronounced UNAMA arch Tadamichi Yamamoto.
“A family broken in seconds — this fear is only one of too many incidents documented during a conflict of this fighting season.”
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1414647/roadside-bomb-kills-11-members-afghan-family/