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Nine civilians killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR: At least nine people were killed Thursday when a

roadside bomb

struck their vehicle in Afghanistan's southern

Helmand province

, officials said, the latest violence in a region that has seen weeks of intense fighting.


Helmand's deputy governor Baryalai Nazari told AFP that women and children were killed in the blast, in the provincial capital

Lashkar Gah

.

Attaullah Afghan, head of Helmand provincial council, confirmed the toll.

No group has claimed responsibility, but the Taliban and Afghan government forces clash regularly on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah -- more frequently since May 1, when the

United States

began the final phase of its troop withdrawal.

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