[Tolo News] An eight-year-old girl was killed and 8 other civilians were maimed in a roadside kaboom blast in Jalalabad city, in eastern Afghanistan, on Saturday afternoon, local officials said.The bomb exploded at noon in a bazaar, said a front man for the provincial governor, Ahmad Zia Alizai.
The maimed were taken to a nearby hospital.
No group, including the Taliban, has grabbed credit for the blast.
The blast occurs in the same day as the UN releases its annual report on civilian casualties, saying that it has increased 14% in 2013 compared to a year before. Roadside bombs are the single largest killer of civilian casualties in the country and a weapon of choice by the bully boys.
The report documents 2,959 civilians deaths and 5,656 injuries during 2013, attributing about third of them to the bully boys.
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Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented 8,615 civilian casualties (2,959 civilian deaths and 5,656 injured) in 2013, marking a seven percent increase in deaths, 17 percent increase in injured, and a 14 percent increase in total civilian casualties compared to 2012.," the report said.