Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Three children were killed when an explosive device attached to a motorbike went off in a market in Afghanistan’s western province, an official said.<\/p>\n Another 20 people were wounded in the incident on Saturday, which took place in Herat province’s Oba district, according to provincial governor spokesman Jelani Farhad.<\/p>\n The target of the bombing is yet to be determined, but a remotely-controlled bomb went off when the district chief’s vehicle was passing by the area’s main market, according to Farhad.<\/p>\n Earlier in the day Farhad spoke of five people killed, but then revised the toll to three.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, in Kama district of Nangarhar province, five people including three civilians were wounded when an unknown man lobbed a hand grenade at a police checkpoint, provincial spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said.<\/p>\n According to a quarterly report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), explosive devices killed 53 civilians and left 269 others injured in the first three months of this year, a 21 percent increase from the same period last year.<\/p>\n The figures do not include casualties from suicide bombings.<\/p>\n UNAMA said it is “very concerned” by the increase in civilian casualties from the use of non-suicide improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.<\/p>\n The Taliban, who was removed from power by US-led forces in 2001, has been waging a bloody rebellion against the country’s Western-backed government.<\/p>\n Pro-government forces have been struggling to combat the armed group, which holds sway over nearly half of the war-torn country.<\/p>\n Civilians have repeatedly been caught up in the clashes, with UN statistics showing more than 32,000 killed and 60,000 injured in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another 20 people wounded in the explosion that went off in a market in Herat province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","category-social"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n