Bomb kills 4 civilians in southern Afghanistan

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Source: Associated Press

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A roadside blast ripped through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding six others, a government spokesman said.

The bomb exploded in Nad Ali district of Helmand province on a road also used by government drug-eradication forces, said Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand's governor.

Ahmadi blamed the Taliban and the drug mafia for planting the bomb.

Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency. Helmand province is also the world's largest producer of opium, the main ingredient in heroin. Millions of dollars from the illicit drug trade fund the insurgency.



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