TALUQAN, Afghanistan, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Five Afghan civilians, including women and children, were killed and six others sustained injuries as a rocket slammed into a residential area in the northern Takhar province on Monday, police said.
"A rocket or possibly mortar mine fired from unknown direction struck a residential area in Arab Kakal village of Dasht-e-Qala district this morning, killing five civilians including women and children on the spot and wounding six others," provincial police spokesman Abdul Khalil Asir told Xinhua.
Without identifying those behind the attack, the official said an investigation had been initiated to ascertain the culprits.
Villagers said that the warring sides, possibly Taliban or security forces might have fired the rocket.
Neither Taliban nor any other factions involved in Afghan fighting have claimed responsibility for the attack.
