String of deadly attacks across Afghanistan, 19 dead

Three deadly insurgent attacks on Saturday tore through Afghanistan, said authorities.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. In the south, three international service members were killed. The command wouldn’t say precisely where the event occurred and identify the nationalities of the troops.

Attack in Kunduz province, which took place prior to that incident where motorcycle bomb detonated in a market, killed 10 people which includes three children in what the country’s Interior Minister called an “un-Islamic and inhumane action. In the Northern Province, there were 19 people injured.

At the beginning of the month, “insurgents have engaged in at least 47 acts of indiscriminate violence” in civilian areas, ISAF said.

In Nangarhar province, located in the east, insurgents attacked an ISAF observation post at the Jalalabad airport, and six of the alleged attackers were killed by Afghan and foreign troops.

Insurgents are continuing “to engage in indiscriminate attacks which put Afghan civilians in harm’s way”, said ISAF who denounced the strike- despite guidance from the Afghan Taliban leadership’s to its fighters to avoid civilian casualties.