By KUNA
Kabul : Two Indian road construction engineers were killed in a blast that ripped through their vehicle in western Afghanistan on Saturday, Afghan officials said. It was not clear if the explosion was caused by a suicide attacker or a landmine in the western province of Nimroz.
Provincial Governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told journalists that the engineers were busy making a bridge on the main highway, when a suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle close to them.
However, police officials in the province said the vehicle of the Indian road workers were struck by a roadside bomb. Eight more people, all of them Afghans, were wounded in the explosion.
Earlier, eight civilians were killed in the province of Kandahar when a suicide bomber missed a NATO convoy there.