Roadside bombing kills 6 Afghan soldiers; explosion kills 1 after tractor hits road mine
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A military spokesman says a roadside bombing has killed six Afghan soldiers in the country's west.
Najibullha Najibi said on Friday that the six died when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the western Herat province's Adraskan district the previous day. The six were from a unit based at the Shindand military airport, Herat's largest.
Najibi, an Afghan National Army spokesman, says those killed in Thursday's incident included two officers and four soldiers.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In another incident on Thursday, Mhuklis Afghan, a spokesman for the governor of eastern Paktika province, says a tractor hit a road mine in the Jani Khil district, killing one person and wounding four.