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Roadside bomb kills two Afghan civilians

Sunday, 25 December 2016 9:06 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 25 December 2016 10:54 AM ]

This image shows a car damaged in a bombing attack in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on November 11, 2016. (By AFP)

A roadside bomb has killed at least two civilians in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman Province.

The attack took place near a shrine in the provincial capital, Mihterlam, early Sunday morning, according to Sarhadi Zwak, a spokesman for Laghman’s provincial governor.

No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. But the Taliban and Daesh militants are the likely culprits. The Taliban militants routinely set up roadside bombs to target Afghan security forces and government officials. Daesh, too, has recently gained a foothold in the east of the country and is involved in planning and carrying out acts of terrorism.

The Daesh terrorist group has reportedly managed to take recruits from Taliban defectors in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. Reports say the Takfiri terrorist group has recruited some 2,500 members in Afghanistan.

In August, Daesh claimed responsibility for a huge bombing during a demonstration held by the Shia Hazara community in Kabul, where at least 85 civilians were killed and 400 more wounded.

In early Decmber, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who was attending an international conference on Afghanistan in India, said militant activities significantly increased in his country in 2016.

Militant and terrorist attacks across Afghanistan are frequent despite the presence of foreign forces from the US and other NATO members there.

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