.- A new explosion of a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan today caused the deaths of six women and a child, which has risen to 23 the number of civilians killed in such incidents since last Friday in the central country Asian, Efe reported an official source. The incident occurred around 14:00 local time (08:30 GMT) Shahabudin Area in the northern province of Baghlan, where an explosive device blew up a vehicle carrying civilians, said provincial governor Munshi Abdul Majeed.According to his version, six women and a child were killed by the detonation of the device. The registered today in Baghlan is the fourth episode of the death of civilians in just three days into the outbreak of roadside bombs at passing vehicles, one of the methods used by insurgents to harass foreign troops.
Afghan authorities had informed hours before yesterday's deaths of six civilians, including women and children, by a similar blast in the troubled southern province of Helmand, an action attributed to the insurgency. Also on Saturday, three others were killed in central Daykundi, while on Friday the death toll was seven, and the scene the southeastern province of Zabul.
The Afghan war intensified last year with the deployment of large reinforcements from NATO, especially the U.S., who launched two major operations against the Taliban insurgency in the south-central Asia. Over two thousand four hundred civilians were killed in violence in the first nine months (January to September) of 2010, according to a recent UN report.
In addition to roadside bombs or attacks on civilians often suffer from lack of precision errors or bad intelligence of bombings and other attacks on international forces.
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