Six civilians killed in Taliban-style bombing

Six civilians -- four women and two children -- were killed in a Taliban-style roadside bombing in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan on Thursday, a police spokesman said.

Six civilians -- four women and two children -- were killed in a Taliban-style roadside bombing in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan on Thursday, a police spokesman said.

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The bombing in the troubled province's Dihrawud district comes a day after a similar incident killed eight civilians in the neighbouring province of Helmand.

"Six civilians are dead, four of them were women and the two others children," Farid Ail told AFP.