KABUL, Aug 30 (KUNA) -- Three policemen were among six people killed in two separate bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
The first blast, cause by a roadside bomb, took place in Panjwayee district of Kandahar province. The explosion killed three policemen, provincial officials.
Three more people, all of them civilians, were killed when in a similar bomb attack in Arghandab district of Kandahar the same day.
Police officials in Kandahar and the Interior Ministry in Kabul confirmed the two blasts and the casualties. They said 10 people sustained injuries in the two explosions.
Taliban claimed responsibility for the first attack that killed the policemen but did not issue any statement about the civilian casualties in the second blast in Arghandab district. (end) gk.aj KUNA 301321 Aug 09NNNN