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9 people including 2 suicide bombers killed in explosions in Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct. 7, 2020 (BSS/Xinhua) – Nine people, including two suicide bombers, were killed and five others wounded in separate explosions in Afghanistan during Tuesday night and early Wednesday, authorities said Wednesday.
In eastern Kapisa province, three civilians, including one woman, were killed after a vehicle they were traveling touched off a Taliban militants’ Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Khisha Chena, an area in Tagab district at about 6:15 a.m. local time.
Provincial police spokesman Shayiq Shurish told Xinhua that the vehicle was destroyed in the explosion, and police would notify the victims’ relative soon.
In southern Helmand province, four Afghan army soldiers and an assailant were killed after a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint with a car bomb in Yakhchal locality of Nahri Sarraj district roughly at 10:00 p.m. local time Tuesday, local government spokesman Omar Zwak told Xinhua.
Three soldiers were wounded in the blast.
In neighboring Kandahar province, a Taliban suicide bomber tried to assault an Afghan Border Force checkpoint in Maruf district, but soldiers manning the facility identified and fired on the vehicle, killing the attacker.
Two border force members were wounded after the explosive-laden car exploded following the shooting, according to an army source in the province.
Violence lingers in the war-torn country even as peace talks between the Afghan government delegation and Taliban representatives are being held in Doha, capital of Gulf state of Qatar.
The Taliban militants have been trying to overrun small towns or districts across Afghanistan and consolidate their position, launching hit-and-run ambushes against security forces.
BSS/Xinhua/MSY/1234 hrs