Roadside bombs kill 15 in Afghanistan

July 08, 2012 14:02

AP reports: Roadside bombs have killed 14 Afghan civilians and one member of the US-led international military coalition in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and NATO authorities said today.

A minivan ran over one bomb today in Arghistan district, along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, said Ahmad Jawed Faisal, the spokesman for Kandahar province.

Other civilians, who were riding on a tractor, arrived to help the dead and wounded, but the tractor struck a second bomb in the road, he added.

Authorities were trying to determine how many people died in each blast. At least three other civilians were injured in the explosions.

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