Nine civilians were killed Saturday morning as their vehicle run over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, deputy to provincial police chief said.
"A civilian car was travelling to provincial capital Khost city this morning at around 9 a.m. local but the vehicle hit a roadside bomb triggering a blast that killed two men, three women and four children," Mohammad Yaqub told Xinhua.
He said the explosion occurred in Lakan area some 15 km east of Khost city.