By Xinhua,
Kabul : A bomb explosion triggered by a remote control in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan Friday left one child dead and two other civilians injured, the police said.
The bomb attached to a bicycle exploded in Arghandab, a district north of the provincial capital Kandahar city, where usually local families go for Friday picnics, Sayed Aqa Saqib, provincial police chief, told Xinhua.
There has been no responsibility claim yet but Saqib blamed “Afghanistan’s enemy”, which is referred to anti-government militants, for the blast.
Escalating insurgency-related conflicts and violence left as many as 8,000 people including around 1,500 civilians dead last year, the bloodiest year since the Taliban regime’s collapse in 2001.