15 killed in Afghan bombings and attack on NATO convoy
12 April 2015 4:57 AM IST
A Taliban suicide car bomb targeted a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least three civilians as security forces brace for a full-blown insurgent offensive in the spring fighting season.
Separately, 12 civilians onboard a minivan were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the militant-infested southeastern province of Ghazni.
The civilian fatalities come as Taliban insurgents step up attacks on government and foreign targets after Washington announced a delay in US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan last month.
"In the morning today a foreign forces convoy came under a suicide attack near the airport in Jalalabad city," provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told AFP. He added that three civilians were killed and four others were wounded in the powerful explosion in Jalalabad, which is home to an important US military base.
Resolute Support, the new name for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, did not officially comment on the incident but in a brief Twitter posting denounced it as "yet another senseless attack by the Taliban".
Separately, 12 civilians onboard a minivan were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the militant-infested southeastern province of Ghazni.
The civilian fatalities come as Taliban insurgents step up attacks on government and foreign targets after Washington announced a delay in US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan last month.
"In the morning today a foreign forces convoy came under a suicide attack near the airport in Jalalabad city," provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal told AFP. He added that three civilians were killed and four others were wounded in the powerful explosion in Jalalabad, which is home to an important US military base.
Resolute Support, the new name for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, did not officially comment on the incident but in a brief Twitter posting denounced it as "yet another senseless attack by the Taliban".
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