KANDAHAR, May 25: Four bomb blasts in Afghanistan on Friday killed five people and wounded 11 others, officials said.

Two passengers died and three were injured when a bus struck a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province, said government spokesman Daud Ahmadi.

“It was a bomb planted by the enemy,” he said, referring to the Taliban trying to bring down President Hamid Karzai’s western-backed government.

In the same province, a man was killed and two children were wounded by an improvised explosive device, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force reported.

“These are examples of how the insurgents plant IEDs with a complete disregard for the safety of innocent civilians,” said Lt-Col Stewart Upton, spokesperson for Isaf’s regional command southwest.

In southern Uruzgan province, a roadside bomb killed a police officer and injured three others, while a police commander was killed in neighbouring Kandahar province, Afghan officials said.

And in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle wounded a policeman and two civilians, local government spokesman Jawed Faisal said.—AFP