KABUL, June 12: Six people were killed and five injured when a group of gunmen attacked a bus in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the governor of neighbouring Uruzgan said on Thursday.

“A group of armed men on Wednesday afternoon attacked a civilian bus which was on its way from Nawmish village to Sartighan village in Baghran district of northern Helmand,” Jan Mohammad said by telephone from the Uruzgan capital Terin Kot, 360 kilometres southwest of Kabul.

The attackers opened fire on the bus and escaped, he said.

It was not known who the attackers were but the governor blamed the incident on ethnic and religious tensions in the region.—AFP