A roadside kaboom killed six civilians, including women and kiddies, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, local officials said on Tuesday.
The victims were traveling in a minivan in the Greshk district of Helmand when their vehicle was caught in the blast on Monday, the provincial governor's office said in a statement.
They did not say how many women and kiddies were killed, but two other women were maimed and taken to hospital.
"Six civilians including women and kiddies were martyred yesterday when their minivan hit a terrorist-planted roadside mine in Greshk district," the statement said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but roadside kabooms are frequently planted by Taliban-led Death Eaters fighting a decade-long war against NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
-led foreign troops and Afghan government forces.
Parts of Helmand remain highly unstable although picturesque provincial capital Lashkar Gah is under the control of Afghan forces and three other districts are due to transition from NATO to Afghan security control within weeks.
There are around 140,000 international troops, mainly from the United States, in Afghanistan helping government forces combat the insurgency.
The United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
said the number of civilians killed in violence in Afghanistan rose by 15 percent in the first six months of this year to 1,462, with Death Eaters blamed for 80 percent of the killings.