At least four people were killed and six injured in a terror attack carried out in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities said on Sunday.
The attack occurred on Sunday afternoon in the central marketplace in the town of Musa Kala in the Helmand province, when a motorbike parked at the roadside exploded. The bomb could have been planted on the motorcycle by Taliban militants, the local authorities said.
The bomb exploded as a military convoy passed by; however, almost all those killed and injured in the blast were civilians, the local authorities said.
Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months, with the radical Islamic Taliban group, which was toppled in a 2001 U.S.-led campaign, staging regular attacks on provincial government officials, police and civilians and planting roadside bombs to target Afghan, U.S. and NATO troops.
KABUL, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
