Five people were killed and three others sustained injuries as two roadside bombs went off in Maiwand district of the Kandahar province 450 km south of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, a local official said Sunday.
"The first blast occurred in Shir Ali Kariz area targeted a vehicle of local police killing three civilians and a police personnel on the spot, and in the second blast which happened in Shahi Kariz area left a civilian dead on the spot," Abdul Ali Kaliwal, police chief of Maiwand district told Xinhua.
Three people, including a local police and two civilians, sustained injuries in the blasts, the official added.
Maiwand district has been regarded as a hotbed of Taliban militants in the troubled Kandahar province.
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