HERAT, Afghanistan, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Seven Afghan civilians, including three women and two children, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Herat province on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday.
The blast occurred in Adraskan district when a vehicle running along a main road touched off an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and the explosion killed all people aboard the vehicle on the site, provincial police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada told Xinhua.
The victims were members of the same family.
Walizada blamed the Taliban militant group for planting the IED in the district, south of provincial capital Herat city, 640 km west of Afghan capital.
The Taliban uses IEDs to target security forces but the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians, according to military officials.
About 715 civilians were killed and over 1,460 others injured in conflict-related incidents across Afghanistan in the first three months of the year, according to figures released by the United Nation mission in the country.
Out of casualties, 86 civilians were killed and 132 others wounded in IED attacks across the country over the period.
