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TO ACCEPT: At least six civilians were confirmed dead and another 12 injured in Afghanistan on Thursday as fighting intensified in the militancy-hit country, authorities said.
In the latest attack, Taliban militants fired a mortar shell that hit a house in Khan Abad district in northern Kunduz province on Thursday noon, killing three civilians at the scene and wounding six others, he said. a senior district official, Qudratullah Safi, told Xinhua.
The official blamed the Taliban for the deadly attack and said the militants intentionally targeted civilians to terrorize the locals.
Similarly, another explosion that struck a car in the city of Kunduz, capital of the troubled Kunduz province, at lunchtime injured three civilians, including a prosecutor, confirmed provincial government spokesman Esmatullah Muradi.
Three more civilians were killed and three more wounded in the ambush by Taliban fighters in the Darayim district of the northern province of Badakhshan on Thursday morning.
All the victims are members of the same family, said provincial police spokesman Sanaullah Rohani. The Taliban group has yet to claim responsibility for the attacks.
Civilians in Afghanistan are often the hardest hit by the war in the country.
According to Sayed Mohammad Sami, head of the Afghan human rights commission in the northern province of Balkh, 31 civilians have been killed and 102 others, including 12 women and 25 children, have been injured due to clashes between government forces and the Taliban. in the northern region of the country during the last two months.
A watchdog report released in July stated that, on average, 16 civilians had been killed or wounded each day in war-torn Afghanistan.
The report, which documented civilian casualties in the first half of the year, indicated that 1,213 civilians had died and 1,744 others had been injured between January and June 2020.
Fighting in Afghanistan has intensified since the start of the intra-Afghan talks in Doha on 12 September. Hundreds of fighters from both sides, as well as civilians, have died since the start of the talks in the Qatari capital, according to the Afghans.
The Afghan government negotiating team and the Taliban delegation began peace talks in Doha 12 days ago to find a political solution to the country’s crisis, but so far no tangible progress has been reported.
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