Seven civilians killed in Afghanistan roadside bomb blast

Kabul: At least seven civilians, including two women and three children, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's western Herat province, police said on Wednesday.

The blast occurred in Adraskan district on Tuesday when a vehicle running along a main road touched off an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and the explosion killed all the people aboard the vehicle, provincial police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada said.

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Walizada blamed Taliban militants for planting the IED in the district, south of provincial capital Herat city, 640 kilometres west of the Afghan capital.

• No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing so far.
• The victims were members of the same family.

The Taliban uses IEDs to target security forces but the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians, according to military officials.

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