Five civilians were killed on Friday when their vehicle hit a mine in northern Afghanistan, where a Taliban insurgency has increasingly encroached in recent years, police said. The device exploded Faryab province’s Qaysar district, police spokesman Sayed Massoud Yaqoubi told AFP.
“Five civilians were killed as their vehicle was hit by a roadside mine in the Shakh area of Qaysar district,” Yaqoubi said. The spokesman accused the Taliban, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against Afghan government and US-led NATO troops, of planting the bomb.
