11 members of one family killed in Afghanistan
Eleven members of one family were killed when a minibus hit a bomb buried in the road in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.
Kandahar governor’s spokesman Ahmad Jawed Faisal said the bus hit the device on a road north-west of Kandahar city at about 7.45am local tim, killing eight women, two children and a man. Two other men were injured.
Mr Faisal said all of the victims were relatives but that he had no further details.
