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A rocket fired by Taliban militants slammed into a residential area in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, a former Taliban stronghold, on Tuesday killing three civilians and injuring two others, said Farid Ahmad Obaid, the police spokesman in the province.
"A rocket fired by the Taliban insurgents struck a house in Shaiekhzai village of Nawzad district, Helmand province in the wee hours of Tuesday, killing three civilians, including a woman and two men and injuring two other male members of the same family," Obaid told Xinhua on Wednesday.
The injured were shifted to a hospital in the district, north of the provincial capital Lashkargah, said the officer.
The Taliban outfit has intensified attacks over the past couple of months.
Afghan national security forces took over the responsibility for security in their country from the NATO-led forces from Jan. 1 this year.
About 10,000 civilians were killed and injured in Taliban-led insurgency and conflicts in Afghanistan in 2014, according to the U.N. mission officials here.
In the restive Helmand province, more than 20 people including women and children were killed and some 60 others sustained injuries as a wedding party was attacked in Sangin district last Wednesday and no one has claimed of responsibility.
Hours earlier on Monday evening, police shot and killed two would-be suicide bombers in Khost province on Monday evening, provincial police chief Faizullah Ghairat said.
"Two terrorists equipped with small arms and suicide vests attacked a police checkpoint on Kondio area outside provincial capital Khost city Monday evening but in rapid reaction, police opened fire and killed them on the spot," Ghairat told Xinhua.
He said both bodies of the suicide bombers are with police.
Taliban militants, largely relying on suicide and roadside bombings, are yet to make comment. Enditem
