2 killed, 5 wounded in Afghan blasts

Two civilians were killed and five people wounded in two explosions in Afghanistan on Saturday morning, sources said.
In one attack, two civilians were killed and one wounded when a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar, a deputy provincial police chief told Xinhua.
The target of the attack was an army jeep passing by the area. No army soldier was hurt, he said.
Earlier on Saturday, one Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander Niyaz Khan along with three ALP cops was wounded in a similar attack in northern Kunduz province.
Several civilian vehicles were damaged in the attack which occurred in provincial capital Kunduz city.
No group has claimed responsibility. The authorities blame Taliban militants for such attacks.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group launched an annual rebel offensive against Afghan government forces and nearly 50,000 NATO-led troops stationed in the country in mid-May.
More than 1,560 civilians were killed and nearly 3,290 others wounded in conflicts and Taliban-led attacks in the first six months of 2014, according to official figures released by UN mission in the country.