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| Roadside Bomb Kills Eight Civilians in Afghanistan |
| 2015-04-24 |
| [AnNahar] A roadside kaboom killed eight members of an Afghan family, including children, just hours after the Taliban claimed their upcoming spring offensive would "safeguard" civilian lives, officials said Thursday. The blast destroyed the family's vehicle in Khash Rod district of southwestern Nimroz province late Wednesday as they were travelling home. "The roadside kaboom hit a vehicle carrying a family, killing two men, one woman and four children," Ahmad Arab, front man for the provincial authorities, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Another family member who was maimed and taken to the hospital died later." Amir Mohammad Akhundzada, the governor of the province, blamed the Taliban for the incident. "The bomb had been planted to target Afghan cops," he said. The Taliban on Wednesday said their annual spring offensive will begin on Friday, vowing nationwide attacks in what is expected to be the bloodiest fighting season in a decade as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces pull back from the frontlines. In their statement, the Taliban said their top priority during the offensive will be to "safeguard and protect the lives and properties of civilian people". No group grabbed credit for Wednesday's incident, but roadside kabooms -- which often cause civilian casualties -- have been the Taliban's weapon of choice in their 13-year war against foreign and Afghan forces. The number of civilians killed and maimed jumped 22 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). And in the first three months of 2015, civilian casualties from ground fighting were up eight percent on the same period last year, a new UNAMA report said. |
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