[Pak Daily Times] A roadside kaboom blew up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a major highway in Helmand, Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 14 civilians, officials said.
The blast struck the minibus in the Lashkar Gah-Sangin district in Helmand province on the main road running from the city of Kandahar to Herat, said Daoud Ahmadi, a front man for the Helmand governor's office. He said four others were maimed in the blast and that the dead included women and kiddies.
The bus was transporting people to a local bazaar, said Ghulam Haidar, who arrived at the scene after learning that two of his brothers had been killed. "There was a huge blast, body parts were scattered far away from the bus," he said.
Haidar said he took his cousin and a child who was on the bus to a local hospital. He learned that the child later died.
President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai condemned the bombing as a "blood thirsty" attack, saying in a statement that the explosive was "planted by the enemy of the Afghan people". |