Taliban behead woman, grandson
13/12/2007 14:27  - (SA)  

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Kabul - Officials say Taliban militants beheaded an old woman and her grandson accused of spying on Thursday.

A civilian car hit a land mine in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing six people and wounding six others.

The blast ripped through the car as it travelled on a road outside the town of Tirin Kot, in Uruzgan province, a ministry statement said.

"This mine was possibly planted by the enemy," it said. Afghan officials refer to the Taliban and other militants as "the enemy."

Militants usually attack foreign and Afghan troops with mines and other roadside bombs, but most of the victims in such attacks have been civilians.

The incidents follow a Monday roadside blast on a Nato convoy in eastern Afghanistan that killed two soldiers and wounded three others, the alliance said in a statement.

This year has been the deadliest since the US-led invasion in 2001. More than 6 200 people have been killed in insurgency-related violence.

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