| A Taliban ambush killed two newly married women and a child in Afghanistan on Friday while 13 policemen were killed in separate attacks, police said. The women were travelling in a convoy to the southern city of Kandahar after their marriage to two brothers in Herat further west, Kandahar province police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib said. Rebels opened fire with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, striking the vehicle carrying the two brides and the child, he told AFP. The women’s father-in-law was also in the vehicle and was wounded in the attack, added Saqib, who said he had spoken to the man in the hospital. “They were bringing the brides home,” the police chief said. “There were no military convoy, military post or any military target near the blast site,” Saqib said, referring to Taliban claims that they only attack military targets. |