Roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed at least 24 people in 5 separate attacks across Afghanistan as violence rose this year’s spring fighting season, officials said on Wednesday.
So far, April has been the deadliest month this year for Afghan, foreign civilians and security forces. 182 people have been killed in violence around the nation.
In western Afghanistan, 7 women and children died when their truck hit a bomb near Shindad, said Muhiudin Noori, a spokesman for the Governor. In the east, another roadside bomb killed five men who were part of a Government security force in Qarabagh district, provincial spokesman Fazel Ahmad Sabaoon said. A checkpoint in laghman province was also attacked, killing four village policemen.
In Jowzjan, police chief Aziz Ghayrat said insurgents opened fire on elders in a village killing two health workers. On Wednesday, 6 Afghan soldiers, including two officers and four enlisted men were found shot dead on main highway.