Tue Sep 6, 2011
US-led forces in Afghanistan (file photo)
Two US-led foreign forces military convoys have been targeted in separate attacks in western provinces of Afghanistan, local Afghan authorities told Press TV.
In the first incident, Afghan provincial officials said a bomber blew up his explosives-laden car near a convoy in Ghuryan city of Herat province on Tuesday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Two civilians were injured and the bomber himself was killed in the attack, a police official said.
The attacks also came as a group of high-ranking Afghan security officials were on a visit to Herat province.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the attack had all the hallmarks of Taliban militants
Police spokesman in western region Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said there were no casualties among US-led foreign forces.
In another incident in the western province of Farah, Taliban militants attacked a NATO logistic military convoy on Tuesday.
Security officials told Press TV that two Afghan truck drivers were killed when the militants targeted the convoy in Bakwa city.
The convoy was travelling from the southern province of Helmand to Herat, according to officials.
A Taliban spokesman claimed that six employees of a private security company were killed in the second attack and four trucks were torched.
Violence in Afghanistan is on the rise as militants have expedited their spring offensive.
Despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country, the violence has grown every passing year since the 2001 US-led invasion.
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