Multiple attacks kill many in Afghanistan

Several attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul.



The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman Farid Ahmad Obaid told the Associated Press news agency.

Ghulam Farouk Parwani, a military commander at the camp, told Al Jazeera that six workers were also wounded in the attack in Helmand.

The de-miners, who lived on the base, were reportedly travelling to work in the Nad Ali district when they were attacked, Parwani said.

The Afghan army and the air force launched a counterattack, killing four of the assailants and capturing three, he told Al Jazeera.

Meawnhile, a suicide attack on Saturday evening in the Afghan capital killed seven government troops, and injured 18 others, including civilians.

Reports said the military bus was burnt down after the attacker, who was on foot, detonated himself.

(Al Jazeera)