Roadside bombs have become a common occurrence in Afghanistan. — File Photo
From the article at DAWN:
Taliban bomb attacks killed at least eight people, including women and children, in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle targeted a police patrol in the main market of Chahar Bolak, a small town in the northern province of Balkh, regional police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzi told AFP.
The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed the incident, saying three civilians were killed and five police officers were wounded.
Hours earlier, a roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in the central province of Wardak, killing five civilians, an official said.
Provincial government spokesman Sahidullah Shahid said a mine exploded under the minibus, killing five civilians, including women and children. “Two others are injured,” Shahid said.
On Monday, a roadside bomb killed five people in northern Afghanistan and last week twin suicide bombings killed 23 people in the south.
I guess we can blame all of this on the Taliban "Spring Offensive" but at the same time, it's disturbing that these suicide bombings are encompassing such a large part of Afghanistan - it's not just concentrated in the south but literally going on in all of the country.
The other thing to notice here is that more and more the Afghan police are the target of these bombings - let's face it, the Taliban know it's in the near future that NATO and U.S. troops will withdraw from the country so their current strategy is to go after Afghan security forces so that when the foreign militaries are gone, there simply will be a drought of police in Afghanistan to stand up to the takeover efforts of the Taliban at that time.
Second Taliban bombing kills eight in Afghanistan: officials
KABUL: Taliban bomb attacks killed at least eight people, including women and children, in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle targeted a police patrol in the main market of Chahar Bolak, a small town in the northern province of Balkh, regional police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzi told AFP.
The interior ministry in Kabul confirmed the incident, saying three civilians were killed and five police officers were wounded.
Hours earlier, a roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in the central province of Wardak, killing five civilians, an official said.
Provincial government spokesman Sahidullah Shahid said a mine exploded under the minibus, killing five civilians, including women and children. “Two others are injured,” Shahid said.
Four other passengers survived the explosion in the restive province’s Sayed Abad district, he said.
Authorities blamed both attacks on the “enemies of Afghanistan”, a phrase commonly used by Afghan officials to refer to Taliban and other insurgents.
On Monday, a roadside bomb killed five people in northern Afghanistan and last week twin suicide bombings killed 23 people in the south.
Taliban insurgents regularly use improvised roadside bombs to target Afghan and Western military forces, but they often kill civilians who use the same roads.
For the past five years the number of civilians killed in the war has risen steadily, reaching a record 3,021 in 2011 — the vast majority caused by insurgents, the United Nations says.
The Taliban are still fighting a bitter insurgency more than a decade after being toppled from power by the 2001 US-led invasion.
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