Roadside bomb kills six Afghan workers

Kabul, July 15: A roadside bomb today killed six Afghans working for a Western security company in the east of the country the provincial governor said.

The six were travelling in a vehicle in Paktika province which borders Pakistan when the bomb hit, Governor Mohammad Akram Akhpalwak told Reuters.

Afghanistan has been hit by a wave of suicide and roadside bombs in the last two years as Taliban insurgents switch to Iraq-style tactics after suffering heavy casualties in conventional attacks.

Some 6,000 people have been killed, around 1,500 of them civilians, in Afghanistan in the last 18 months as NATO and US-led troops battle with the resurgent Taliban movement.

REUTERS

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