By Xinhua,
Kabul : Taliban-linked violent incidents in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province claimed the lives of nine people, all of them civilians, officials said Monday.
In the first incident occurred in Spairi district Sunday afternoon, seven employees of a local company Ganj-e-Hazor were killed and five others sustained injures as a mine planted by Taliban went off, Mohammad Azam, the district chief of Spairi, told Xinhua.
The second incident took place in Khost city, capital of Khost province, where militants fired rockets hitting a residential house, killing two persons including a woman and wounding two children, police chief of the province Abdul Qayum Baqizai told Xinhua.
Taliban insurgents, who have frequently carried out similar attacks against interests of Afghan government and foreign troops, have yet to make any comment.
Meantime, a press release of Afghan Defense Ministry issued here Monday said that three soldiers of Afghan national army were injured as a mine struck their vehicle in the troubled southern Helmand province on Sunday.
Moreover, Afghan officials in Helmand province claimed Sunday that clash left over 100 militants dead in Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkar Gah and the mountainous Nadali district in an operation launched late Friday.
Conflicts and spiraling insurgency have claimed the lives of over 4,500 people with around 1,500 civilians so far this year in the war-weary country.