Six people including two militants were killed in violence in Afghanistan on Wednesday. A market bombing in a southern border town killed two men while a suicide attack on a US military convoy in the east claimed the life of a child in the latest violence to sweep Afghanistan, officials said. Afghan officials also reported heavy fighting on Tuesday after militants attacked a patrol by provincial security forces in eastern Khost province, near the Pakistan border, and that a “large number” of militants died.An upsurge in attacks by Taliban forces since the spring has triggered the deadliest fighting since the militia’s ouster from power in late 2001. The US-led coalition has launched a major offensive in the volatile south, killing hundreds of militants in the past two months, including an estimated 70 militants fighters since Monday.
On Wednesday, a bomb planted in a fruit cart exploded in a crowded market in the Kandahar provincial town of Spin Boldak, about one kilometre from the Pakistani border. Area police chief Haji Abdul Wasay said two male civilians were killed and eight other people wounded.
Meanwhile, a suicide attacker in a car detonated a bomb near a US military convoy 25 kilometres east of Khost city, killing a boy who was playing nearby and wounding three other children, said Khost Governor Merajuddin Pathan. Two American soldiers were slightly wounded in the attack, which occurred at about 10am in Yaqoobi district, he said. The bomber also died.