MAHMOOD RAQI - Six members of a family, including four women and two children, have been killed as a result of a bomb blast in central Kapisa province, an official said on Wednesday.
Police spokesman Abdul Shaiq Shorash told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident, in which two others were wounded, happened in the Baiskhel village of Nijrab district late on Tuesday.
He said four women and two children were killed and two men others wounded in the roadside bombing. The police spokesman blamed Taliban militants for planting the roadside bomb. The Taliban, however, have not yet commented on the incident. (Pajhwok)