FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, March 26
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:40 GMT
(Updates Helmand incident)
March 26 - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1330 GMT on Saturday.
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* HELMAND - Seven civilians, including two women and three children, were killed and five wounded when foreign forces fired on a car carrying insurgents, the office of the governor of southern Helmand province said in a statement. The car that was fired on exploded next to another vehicle carrying the civilians in Helmand's Now Zad district, the statement said. Earlier, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said an unspecified number of civilians were killed and wounded in an air strike it carried out in Now Zad on Friday. The air strike had been called in on two vehicles believed to be carrying a Taliban leader and other insurgents, ISAF said, adding later inspection of the scene revealed civilians were in the vehicles. An ISAF assessment team was being sent to the area, it said. British Major Tim James, a spokesman for ISAF, said he could not yet confirm whether the targeted Taliban leader had been in one of the vehicles.
ZABUL - Two civilians were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a roadside bomb in the Shamalzai district of southern Zabul province on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
KANDAHAR - One child was killed and four civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province on Friday, the Interior Ministry said. The bomber, who survived the blast, is in a coma and undergoing treatment at a hospital, it said.
KABUL - An ISAF service member was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said. It gave no other details. (Compiled by Kabul bureau; Editing by Paul Tait)
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