News - Afghanistan

A child was killed and three others were wounded in a bomb blast in south-western Uruzgan province on Monday, local officials said.

The bomb was hidden in a motorbike parked near a market in Dehrawod district of Uruzgan province, provincial spokesman Farid Ayel said.

No group including the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

It comes as on Sunday a car bomb in a parking near Kandahar headquarters killed seven people including five Afghan policemen and nineteen others were wounded.

On Saturday the UN's Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) said that more than 3,021 Afghan civilians had been killed in 2011 conflict.

The deaths in 2011 compared with 2,790 in 2010 and 2,412 in 2009 showed that most of the deaths were caused by insurgents, the report found.

It was the fifth straight year that the toll had risen, with a total of 11,864 civilian lives claimed by the conflict since 2007.

Taliban-led insurgents caused 77 percent of the deaths last year, up to 14 percent from 2010, while Nato-led and Afghan government forces were responsible for killing 410 civilians -14 percent of the total, it added.