Bomb blasts kill 11 Afghan workers
Eleven Afghan construction workers were killed yesterday in separate bomb blasts similar to those carried out by Taliban insurgents in violence-plagued Afghanistan, authorities said.
In one attack, a bomb blew up a construction company vehicle in a remote eastern district on the border with Pakistan, killing eight workers, the interior ministry said.
It blamed the blast on the "enemies of Afghanistan", a term Afghan officials use to refer to Taliban insurgents.
Police in Nangarhar province had said earlier that seven had died in the attack in the Haska Mina district.
"They were Afghan civilians working as roadworkers, engineers and supervisors for a company doing various construction work in the district," provincial police spokesman Abdul Ghafoor told AFP.
Another bomb exploded Sunday in the southern province of Zabul, killing three more construction workers, the interior ministry said in a separate statement.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the blasts but the Taliban use roadside bombs in their campaign against the Kabul government and foreign troops helping it to fight insurgents.
Civilians are the main victims of Afghanistan's insurgency with nearly 2,200 killed last year in attacks linked to the conflict between the militants and pro-government forces, according to the United Nations.
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