6 killed, 5 injured in Afghanistan car bomb attack
At least six people have been killed and five others injured in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, police say.
"A terrorist riding an explosive-laden car blew it up at the entrance point of Lashkar Gah city at around 05:00 p.m. local time today, leaving six people dead including the attacker and injured five others," provincial police chief Nabi Jan Mullah Khil told reporters on Thursday.
He added that the dead included three civilians, two police officers and the assailant.
The police chief further explained that the attacker was attempting to move his explosive-laden car into Lashkar Gah city. He blew up his car after police ordered him to stop for security check.
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly car bomb attack; however Afghan officials often blame Taliban militants for such deadly attacks.
A new study, conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies in the US, titled Costs of War, shows that following the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, almost 100,000 people have been killed and a same number of others injured in the Asian war-torn country.
The figures, which include the death toll among civilians, militants, foreign forces and aid workers, are based on statistics from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and other sources.
Foreign troops and Afghan forces have failed to maintain security across Afghanistan more than 13 years after the US-led NATO troops invaded the crisis-hit country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
The United States and its NATO allies toppled Taliban hardliners from power, but some regions in the militancy-riddled country are still experiencing violence and bloodshed.
The US-led Western military alliance in Afghanistan officially ended its combat mission on December 31, 2014. However nearly 14,000 foreign forces have remained in Afghanistan; Senior US officials claim the troops will focus mainly on training Afghan security forces across the country.
MRA/KA/HMV
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