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) gk.wsa KUNA 011123 May 08NNNN