Two suicide bombers among nine killed in Afghan blast

KABUL, Oct 07 (Xinhua): Nine people, including two suicide bombers, were killed and five others wounded in separate explosions in Afghanistan during Tuesday night and early Wednesday, authorities said Wednesday.

In eastern Kapisa province, three civilians, including one woman, were killed after a vehicle they were traveling touched off a Taliban militants' Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Khisha Chena, an area in Tagab district at about 6:15 a.m. local time.

Provincial police spokesman Shayiq Shurish told Xinhua that the vehicle was destroyed in the explosion, and police would notify the victims' relative soon.

In southern Helmand province, four Afghan army soldiers and an assailant were killed after a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint with a car bomb in Yakhchal locality of Nahri Sarraj district roughly at 10:00 p.m. local time Tuesday, local government spokesman Omar Zwak told Xinhua.