5 Children Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Bombing
VOA News 02 August 2010
A bomb attack against an Afghan government official has killed five children in the country's southern Kandahar province.
Officials say a suicide bomber tried to attack the convoy of Dand district governor Ahmadullah Nazak Monday but instead killed children nearby. Nazak was not injured.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack.
U.S. and NATO commanders have warned of an increase in violence as international and Afghan forces work to clear the south of Taliban insurgents.
Militants attacked a second Afghan government official on Monday in Nangarhar province.
Afghan officials say the vehicle of a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai was hit by bomb blast in the city of Jalalabad. The adviser, Wahidullah Sabawoon, and at least five other people were wounded.
Elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan, NATO says international and Afghan troops cleared two towns of Taliban fighters during an operation in Nuristan province on Monday. NATO says 30 insurgents and two Afghan soldiers were killed in the fighting.
The alliance says NATO and Afghan forces killed several militants and captured a commander with the Haqqani network, an Afghan Taliban faction with close ties to al-Qaida, in Paktia province on Sunday.
NATO says another Haqqani commander was captured in Khost province late Sunday.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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