A roadside bomb killed at least 19 Afghan civilians including nine children in a southern province, while Taliban fighters in the north captured a key district on the frontline of the battle for Kunduz city, officials said on Sunday, Reuters reported. In the southern province of Helmand, police official Haji Janan Aqa said 19 people, including nine children and eight women, were killed on Saturday night. He said five people were wounded. He said the villagers had recently fled fighting in in Marjah district and were apparently trying to go home. -- SPA 11:18 LOCAL TIME 08:18 GMT تغريد
