A bike laden with bomb went off on Afghan civilians in Southern Helmand province on Tuesday morning which left causalites, Afghan Interior Ministry said.

“The bomb went off on Afghan civilians near to Kandahar bus stop in Lashargah of Helmand province, killed eight civilians and wounded 16 others”. MoI press release said.

Police commander of Helmand province, Assuallah Sherzad said: “seven people were killed and 10 others were wounded and they are all civilians”.

The explosion takes place just one day after NATO killed at least 27 civilians and wounded 11 others in an air strike in southern Uruzgan province. The statement reference “enemies of Afghanistan” for the blast, a word has widely been using by Afghan authorities for the Taliban militants.

Taliban didn’t comment about the bombing of Lashargah. In a separate operation in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, two people were killed and two others were wounded, Afghan police said.

“A road mine laden in motorized rickshaw targeted the police convoy in du saraka of Surkhrod district of Nangarhar, but none of the police officers were killed or wounded” Nangarhar Police said.

According to Afghan police, the bomb targeted a delegation of Afghan police, but the delegation led by Sayed Akber  Tabash  deputy of Police 202 Shamshad HQ in eastern Afghanistan, but the delegation escaped unhurt.

In eastern Khost province, a bomb targeted Afghan National Police convoy, but three civilians were wounded in the incident. The wounded have been taken to the nearest hospital in Khost city. Khost is one of the strongholds of Taliban militants and Haqqani network.

Rahim Aria