SHARANA (PAN): At least 10 people, including two children and as many women, were killed during separate incidents of violence in several provinces over the past 24 hours, officials said on Monday.
In southeastern
Paktika province, two children were killed and as many others injured following a bomb explosion in the Panzakhwa area of
Sarobi district, Mukhlis Afghan, the governor’s spokesman, told
Pajhwok Afghan News.The children were playing when the blast occurred on Sunday afternoon, he said, adding one of the injured children in critical condition was transferred to the
Bagram airfield by US soldiers. The victims were aged between 10 and 12.
Meanwhile, two women were killed in separate incidents in northern Baghlan and southwestern Nimroz provinces.
One of the victims was killed by her husband and the other shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
Col. Mohammad Kamin, the Baghlan Markazi district police chief said a 40-year-old woman was shot dead in the Ghulam Bai area.
The incident that occurred late on Sunday was being investigated, the police official said, adding no one had so far been arrested in connection with the murder.
But residents who sent the dead body to hospital said she might have been killed by her husband.
Human Rights Commission Director in north, Hayatullah Amiri, strongly condemned the killing, saying it was an inhuman act that raised concerns about violence against women in northern provinces. He urged severe punishment for the killers.
Elsewhere, a pregnant woman was gunned down by her husband, who also injured one of his children after a verbal spat in southwestern
Nimroz province.
Abdul Samad, the victim’s father, said his pregnant daughter was killed and her seven-year-old child injured in the incident and was rushed to
Herat province. A perturbed Samad urged the government to take action against the killer.
Abdul Razaq Quraishi, provincial police chief, said the accused killer had been arrested and being interrogated.
The incident was strongly condemned by Shema Mohammadi, deputy head of the women affairs department, saying it was the third case of its kind over the past one month in the province.
On the other hand, six insurgents were killed during separate clashes with security forces in southern Zabul and central Uruzgan provinces, officials said.
Three Taliban were killed during an operation in the
Nurak area on the outskirts of Qalat, the provincial capital, late on Sunday, Maj. Ghulam Jailani Farahi, provincial deputy police chief said.
The operation that lasted about an hour resulted in the seizure of a rocket launcher, a machinegun, two AK-47 assault rifles, and some explosives, he added.
Another two rebels were killed during a clash with local policemen in the Nawbahar district on Sunday, Farahi said, adding some weapons and explosives were also seized from them.
Late on Sunday, a militant was killed when the bomb he was planting on a road went off in Tirinkot, the provincial capital, where a policeman was killed during a clash, said Farid Ayal, police spokesman.
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