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Four Afghan children killed by roadside bomb: police
2011-12-06
[Dawn] Four Afghan children and a woman were killed on Monday when the vehicle they were travelling in hit a roadside kaboom in the country's troubled south, police said.

Six other people were also injured when the blast tore apart a minivan in the volatile Chora district of Uruzgan province.

Farid Ail, a front man for Uruzgan's police chief, said: "Five non-combatants were killed -- four children and one woman -- and six others maimed, one woman, two children and three men."

Roadside bombs are frequently planted by Taliban-led snuffies fighting a decade-long war against 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...
-led foreign troops and Afghan government forces.

There are around 140,000 international troops, mainly from the United States, in Afghanistan helping government forces combat the insurgency.

According to the UN, the number of civilians killed in violence in Afghanistan rose by 15 per cent in the first six months of this year to 1,462, with snuffies blamed for 80 percent of the killings.
Posted by:Fred

#2  No demonstrations here.
Posted by: JFM   2011-12-06 11:22  

#1  Suffer the little children...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2011-12-06 10:45  

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