Suspected Taliban militants gunned down five civilians including two female teachers while a roadside bomb killed two Nato-hired Afghan interpreters as violence continued in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
Taliban militants barged into a house in the troubled eastern province of Kunar late Friday and shot dead five members of the same family, police said. "Sadly, two female teachers, a school worker, and a housewife and a young boy, all members of the same family, were killed," local police officer Abdul Saboor Allahyar told AFP.
Two other family members, a boy and a young woman, were wounded in the attack near the provincial capital Asadabad, he said, blaming the attack on remnants of the Taliban.
Separately, two Afghan interpreters were killed when a roadside bomb hit a vehicle in a Nato-led military convoy in the south-central province of Uruzgan, also on Friday, the alliance said.