KABUL, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Six people, including four children, were killed and at least 12 wounded in three explosions in the south of Afghanistan on Tuesday, local police said.
The first blast occurred in the Helmand province - an old artillery shell exploded in the midst of a group of children killing three and injuring five of them. One of the wounded children later died in a hospital in the provincial center Lashkar Gah.
A police car was destroyed by a radio-controlled explosive device in the same province killing two police officers and wounding three more.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry also reported an explosion of a roadside bomb in Kandahar province, the Taliban heartland, which wounded five policemen.
Violence has surged in Afghanistan prior and in the wake of August 20 presidential elections, with Taliban insurgents, toppled in the 2001 U.S.-led campaign, staging attacks on provincial government officials, police and troops across the country.
Taliban leaders denounced the elections as illegal, and waged a campaign to disrupt voting across the country.
