KABUL: Three Afghan civilians were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, police said, while the army announced it had killed 10 Taliban in a clash in the volatile south.
One of the people killed in the remote-controlled bomb blast near the border with Pakistan was a woman, Khost province police spokesman Mohammad Yaqob said. Two other civilians were wounded, he said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing. Areas near the long frontier with Pakistan see regular violence often blamed on Taliban-linked insurgents who are said to be trained across the border.
The 10 Taliban fighters were killed on Friday in a military swoop in the volatile southern province of Kandahar, from where the hardline religious movement rose in the early 1990s, the defence ministry said.
Four soldiers were wounded in an exchange of fire between the soldiers and rebels, it said. The US-led coalition said it had been supporting the Afghan soldiers when they were attacked. Two air strikes were called in on the attackers, it said.
Afghan soldiers also discovered and destroyed a drugs-processing lab in the town of Musa Qala in southern Helmand province, the main producer of Afghanistan’s world-topping opium crop, the ministry said.
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