By KUNA
Kabul : Two civilians were killed and four more people suffered injuries as a result of a car bomb attack on foreign forces’ convoy in southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
The attack was carried out outside the Khost City, capital of the province having the same name. The dead included an Afghan child and an elderly man while one NATO soldier and three more civilians sustained injuries.
Military officials said the blast took place in Mandaozai district, located some eight kilometres from the city of Khost. According to NATO officials, a civilian and an ISAF soldier were wounded.
However, spokesman for the provincial police headquarters Col. Wazir Badshah said two civilians were killed and three wounded in the blast. Chief of Mandozai district Daulat Qayumi confirmed the casualty figures revealed by the police.
Six civilians were killed in a suicide attack on US forces’ convoy in the country’s central capital Kabul on Thursday.
Mostly civilians suffer the brunt of attacks on foreign and Afghan troops by Taliban as well as in operations by the joint forces against the militants.
On Friday, residents informed about the killing of a dozen civilians in air strike by NATO troops in Garmsir district of Helmand province. However, Afghan officials or foreign troops did not issue any comment.
Two days earlier, the NATO troops admitted the killing of two children and as many women in operation against Taliban in the southern zone.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other officials had time and again warned the troops to observe restraint while conducting operations against Taliban in civilian areas.
Analysts here believe that civilian casualties in military operations mounting support for the anti-government Taliban in the rural and backward areas of Afghanistan.