Bomb kills 15 Afghan civilians

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Fifteen Afghans, most of them children, were killed by a roadside bomb in the southern Kandahar province today.

The latest attack came after the publication of a report from the United Nations which showed a record number of civilian deaths in the month of May.

Afghanistan's interior ministry said eight children, four women and three men were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in the Haji Lahore region of southern Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and one of the most violent regions in Afghanistan.

Another six civilians were wounded when insurgents fired mortar rounds into a district in volatile eastern Kunar province, near the border with Pakistan, the ministry said.