A roadside bombing against police left two children dead and four others injured in the relatively peaceful northern province of Kunduz, provincial police chief said on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
"A roadside bomb, planted by anti-government elements against police vehicle in the main road from Kunduz city to air port, killed two children and wounds four other of them Saturday evening, " Abdul Rizaq Yaqubi told Xinhua.
He also added that police personal survived the incident, but the blast killed innocent children who were passing the scene.
Meantime, Zabihullah Mujahid, who claimed to speak for Taliban fighters, told media via telephone from undisclosed location that the outfit carried out the explosion leaving three police dead and injured two other.
Taliban militants, mostly active in their traditional hotbed south Afghanistan, have been attempting to increase influence in northern peaceful provinces.