KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed eight women and one child as they travelled to celebrate a wedding engagement, police said.

"This morning a roadside bomb hit a civilian car in which eight women and one child were killed, and the driver and two other men were wounded," Ghorzang Afridi, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial police, told AFP.

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