[Dawn] Twelve people were killed Wednesday when their vehicle struck a roadside kaboom in southern Afghanistan's Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, a provincial government front man said.
"Twelve civilians, among them women and kiddies, were killed today when their van hit in a roadside kaboom," said Daud Ahmadi.
He added that the civilians were travelling from quiet provincial capital Lashkar Gah to Sangin district when the blast took place.
The deaths came the day after 59 people died in two blasts at Shia shrines, 55 of them in Kabul.
Roadside bombs are frequently planted by Taliban-led forces of Evil fighting a decade-long war against NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-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 forces of Evil blamed for 80 per cent of the killings.