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Summary At least 20 civilians were killed in a landmine blast in Afghanistan.
According to Afghan officials twenty civilians including women and children were killed in a volatile southwestern province Thursday when a landmine exploded under a bus they were travelling in, police said.The blast occurred in the remote Nimroz province in the regions Khash Rod district on the main highway to Kandahar, the de facto capital of southern Afghanistan.A total of 368 civilians were killed in May alone according to figures released by the UN mission in Afghanistan, with insurgent attacks blamed for 301 of those.
