Eleven Afghan civilians were killed and a woman and a child got wounded as a mini bus ran over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's western Farah province, police official said Monday.
"The incident occurred Sunday afternoon in Gulistan district when the victims were heading from Gulistan to Dilaram district, leaving 11 people, all of them civilians, dead and a woman and child injured," Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, spokesman of police in western region, told Xinhua.
He also said that "apparently the bomb was planted by Taliban insurgents to target Afghan and international troops."
Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have often claimed civilian lives in the militancy-hit country where Taliban fighters have vowed to speed their attacks against Afghan, NATO and U.S.- led forces.