At least 13 people have been killed and many more injured in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials say.<\/p>\n
The attack on Sunday targeted a military vehicle in the district of Nawa, an area that has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The victims included both soldiers and civilians, a government spokesman said.<\/p>\n
It comes one month after Afghan security forces said they had recaptured Nawa from the Taliban.<\/p>\n
At least 19 people were reported to have been injured in the blast near a market in the district on Sunday, Omar Zwak, the spokesperson for the Helmand governor, said.<\/p>\n
The dead and wounded were taken to a hospital in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.<\/p>\n
It is not yet clear who was behind the attack.<\/p>\n
The blast comes just days after a deadly car bomb attack near the main police headquarters in Lashkar Gah.<\/p>\n
In June, dozens of people were killed in a similar explosion outside the New Kabul Bank<\/a> in the same city.<\/p>\n Members of the security forces were among the casualties, as well as shoppers who were preparing for the Eid religious festival.<\/p>\n The Taliban later said that they had planted the explosives at the gates of the bank in Lashkar Gah in the southern Afghan province.<\/p>\n There has been a series of attacks in Afghanistan in recent months, since the Taliban launched its so-called spring offensive.<\/p>\n On 31 May, a huge bombing in central Kabul killed more than 150 people, the deadliest militant attack in the country since US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in 2001.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n URL:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-41067401<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least 13 people have been killed and many more injured in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials say. The attack on Sunday targeted a military vehicle in the district of Nawa, an area that has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks. The victims included both soldiers and civilians, a government spokesman said. It comes… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}