Five non-combatants were killed on Friday when their vehicle hit a mine in northern Afghanistan, where a Taliban insurgency has increasingly encroached in recent years, police said.| When, oh when will those Lutherans give up their wicked ways? |
kaboom!Faryab province's Qaysar district, police front man Sayed Massoud Yaqoubi told AFP.
"Five non-combatants were killed as their vehicle was hit by a roadside mine in the Shakh area of Qaysar district," Yaqoubi said.
The front man accused the Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against Afghan government and US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
troops, of planting the bomb.
The turban group was not immediately reachable for comment.
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The town will become the fifth area of the country to transition to local security control this week as part of a process that critics have branded too much too soon, with question marks looming over Afghan security capabilities.
Civilians are the biggest casualties in the near 10-year war in Afghanistan, where 150,000 foreign forces are stationed.
The United Nations
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has said that more than 1,400 civilians have been killed in the first six months of 2011, blaming gunnies for 80 percent of civilian deaths.