Kabul: A local official in southern Afghanistan says insurgents have thrown hand grenades into two houses in the province of Kandahar, killing a child in one and wounding six people — including a woman and a child — in the other.
The Kandahar governor's spokesman, Zelmai Ayubi, says the attack occurred on Friday morning in the district of Zhari, a Taliban heartland west of Kandahar city at the centre of the 30,000-soldier US surge earlier this year.
Ayubi says authorities were investigating why the two houses were targeted. He says the wounded had been taken to a nearby NATO base for medical help, and that two of the wounded were in serious condition.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, December 31, 2010, 14:09