Six civilians, including two children, were killed when their rickshaw struck a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Nato alliance said. Afghan police and coalition forces secured the area and were investigating the blast site in Kunduz province, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said, giving no further details.
It is the latest attack of the deadly Taliban insurgency that has gripped the country for the past nine years. Afghan police earlier reported that a father and his young son were killed when a bomb blew up their car near the city of Kunduz. "A father and his 10 or 12-year-old son who were driving to the city were killed," deputy provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Aqtash told AFP. He did not give details of any further injuries from the roadside blast. It was unclear whether the incidents were the same. A string of similar attacks have killed civilians in Afghanistan in recent weeks.
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