KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A local official in southern Afghanistan says insurgents have thrown hand grenades into two houses in the province of Kandahar, killing a child in one and wounding six people — including a woman and a child — in the other.
The Kandahar governor’s spokesman, Zelmai Ayubi, says the attack occurred Friday morning in the district of Zhari, a Taliban heartland west of Kandahar city at the center of the 30,000-soldier U.S. surge earlier this year.
Ayubi says authorities were investigating why the two houses were targeted. He says the wounded had been taken to a nearby NATO base for medical help, and that two of the wounded were in serious condition.
