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KABUL, May 1 (KUNA) -- Two minors were among eight civilians who lost their
lives in two roadside bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan, police said on
Thursday.
The first bomb struck a civilian vehicle in the border town of Spin Boldak
of Kandahar province late Wednesday. There was another blast near the site of
the first and it hit another civilian vehicle, said provincial police chief
Sayed Aqa Saqib.
He said eight people were killed in the two blasts. Two of them were
children and six were adults.
Taliban militants, who usually claim responsibility for such attacks on
Afghan and foreign troops, so far did not issue any comment.
The police chief, however, said "enemies of the country", the term Afghan
officials use to refer to Taliban, were responsible for the blasts.
Civilians are the soft target of the insurgency in Afghanistan. They are
often victims of all three sides in the conflict.
Last year, 1,500 civilians were among the 8,000 peopel killed in the
insurgency-wracked country. The number is the highest since the ousting of the
Taliban in late 2001.(end)
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