A suicide bombing rocked Wednesday Afghan northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, 305 km north of capital city Kabul, leaving six people dead and injuring a dozen other, police said.
“The blast happened in Dasht-e-Shur area at around noon leaving six people including the bomber dead and injuring 12 others,” police spokesman in Balkh province Shir Khan Durani said.
“The terrorist planted explosive device in bicycle and detonated it in Dasht-e-Shor area killing himself and five others, ” Durani said, adding that all the victims are civilians.
He blamed the enemies of peace, a term used against Taliban militants by Afghan officials for organizing the attack, but the outfit fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops has yet to make comment.
Mazar-e-Sharif is one of the seven areas that Afghan government is going to take its security responsibility from NATO-led troops in near future.
Afghan government has already assumed security responsibility of central Bamyan province and eastern Mehterlam city from NATO- led troops.
The process of security transition from over 140,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to Afghanistan security forces, began Sunday from Bamyan province would be completed by the end of 2014.
