ASADABAD, Afghanistan, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Four civilians were killed and three others wounded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, provincial police chief said Wednesday.
In one attack, which happened early Wednesday morning, a woman was killed and two children wounded when militants fired mortars on security checkpoints in Marawara district of Kunar province, bordering Pakistan, Gen. Juma Gul Hemmat told Xinhua.
The wounded children were shifted to a hospital in provincial capital Asadabad.
According to the police chief, on late Tuesday, unidentified gunmen targeted a car carrying a couple returning from Hajj pilgrimage from Mecca of Saudi Arabia, on their way to the neighboring Nuristan province, where both Hajjis and their driver were killed and another woman wounded.
The Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants often target remote villages and highways, mostly taking victims among civilians. Earlier this month, six civilians, two of them critically, were wounded when a hotel was hit by mortar rounds in neighboring Laghman province.
