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| Blast Kills Six Civilians in Herat |
| 2009-06-21 |
| [Quqnoos] A roadside bomb struck a car in western Afghanistan, killing six members of a family, Friday midnight, officials said Naqibullah Arween, a spokesman for the local administration said three women are including the victims of the mine that went off in Guzara district of Herat province. The victims were heading off to Guzara district after visiting relatives in Herat city, he added. "We suspect the bomb was planted by the Taliban to target security forces. It struck a civilian car and killed three women and three men," Mr Arween said. No parities including the Taliban have immediately claimed responsibility for the attack that killed only civilians. Guzara, a few km south of the relatively stable Heart city is a restive district in the province. Quqnoos's Reza Shir Mohammadi in Herat says Guzara is a stronghold of insurgents led by Ghulam Yahya Akbari, a local guerilla leader who previously served as a top provincial official under Karzai administration. Normally Taliban escapes to claim responsibility of such insurgent attacks that target local civilians in the country. The incident in Guzara district of Herat is one of recent deadly incidents that end to the deaths of local people in Afghanistan. Soldier killed Moreover in a separate roadside bomb blast, a British soldier has been killed in the southern Helmand province, the heartland of the Taliban militants. The soldier died on Friday morning during a routine patrol in central Helmand province, Sky news reported on Saturday. The soldier's death raises the death toll of British army in Afghanistan to 169 since the beginning of the war in October 2001. |
| Posted by:Fred |