Roadside Bomb Planted By Afghan Taliban Kills 5

KABUL: Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says a edge bomb planted by the Taleban has killed 5 civilians from identical family within the southern Qandahar province.

In a statement, it condemned the killings, adding that 3 of the victims were youngsters.

The attack follows last weekend's presidential runoff, a vote that the Taleban had warned Afghans to not participate in or face attack.

On Sunday, officers same the cluster had cut of the fingers of a dozen voters in retribution and conjointly killed eleven individuals.

The two candidates, former minister Abdullah Abdullah and former minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, have each vowed to boost ties with the West and sign a long-delayed security accord permitting nearly ten,000 United States of America troops to stay within the country for 2 additional years.