Six killed in Afghan bombing

Kabul, Sept. 22: A roadside bomb ripped through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing six Afghans and wounding four others, the Nato-led force said.

The military alliance said the blast occurred in Tirin Kot, the capital of the southern Uruzgan province. It said a child was among those killed. Juman Gul Himat, the police chief in Uruzgan, blamed Taliban militants for the attack.

Militants regularly attack Afghan and foreign troops with roadside bombs and suicide strikes, but hundreds of Afghan civilians have been killed.

-AFP

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150 Afghan labourers abducted

Herat, Sept. 22: Suspected Taliban militants have kidnapped more than 150 civilian labourers who were travelling in three buses in western Afghanistan, Afghan authorities said on Monday.

"About 156 workers who were travelling in three buses were captured by Taliban on Sunday and are still being held by them," an Army colonel in Farah province, Farooq Na'emi, said. -AFP