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March 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Sayed Hamdard Maruf, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the incident took place at around 11 a.m. local time (0630 GMT) on Thursday in the Deh Rawud district of the province, located some 370 kilometers (229 miles) south of Afghan capital city Kabul, when a vehicle touched off a buried explosive device.
He added that two more people, including the driver, were severely injured in the attack.
Meanwhile, Farid Hayel, a provincial police spokesman, said that 13 civilians were killed in the blast.
No group or individuals have claimed responsibility for the attack but almost many similar bombings have in the past been blamed on the Taliban.
Roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapons Taliban militants use against Afghan forces, foreign troops, and civilians.
On Wednesday, eight civilians lost their lives in a similar incident in the neighboring province of Helmand.
The homemade explosives accounted for half of the about 1,500 civilian deaths in the first six months of last year, according to the United Nations.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of some 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.
The United Nations announced on February 4 that 2011 was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians. The death toll rose eight percent compared to the year before and was roughly double the figure for 2007.
Overall, 3,021 civilians died in violence engendered by the war and 4,507 were wounded in 2011. Of the deaths, the UN attributed 77 percent to militant attacks and 14 percent to US-led foreign troops and Afghan forces.
Nine percent of the cases were classified as unknown.
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