A roadside bomb destroyed a car carrying nine people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing everyone inside including one child, the provincial governor said. The previous day, six civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province and another six died after an airstrike by foreign forces in mountainous eastern Kunar, local officials said.
Three children were among the dead in the airborne attack on two houses in the Kodagai area which straddles Kunar's Dangam and Shigal districts, Sultan Sediqi, a member of the provincial council, told Reuters. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement that an air raid in Kunar's Dangam district had killed "numerous" insurgents, after they were identified as an imminent threat to ground forces. It was not clear if this was the incident referred to by Sediqi.
The roadside bomb in the violent Sangin district of southern Helmand province killed six people on Saturday the provincial governor's spokesman, Dawood Ahmadi, said on Sunday.