(3 Jun 2013) SHOTLIST
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Mehterlam, Laghman Province
1. Mid of wreckage of vehicle after landmine explosion, onlookers in background
2. Pan across wreckage
3. Mid of onlookers looking at wreckage of vehicle
4. Wide of victims' relatives around the dead bodies
5. Mid of bodies (covered) and being shielded from the sun
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Khoshhal Khan, Relative of Landmine Victim:
"The victims were our close relatives, our sisters, brothers and mothers. It was an accidental incident. A mine was placed there."
Kabul
7. Wide of Interior Ministry news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sediq Sediqqi, Interior Ministry Spokesman:
"This morning at 0630 a mine hit a Mazda car which was driving in Mehterlam (centre of Laghman province). There were civilians (inside the car) who were there to collect firewood. As a result five women and two men were martyred and two others were wounded."
Mehterlam, Laghman Province
9. Wide of villagers saying prayers over bodies
10. Mid of people carrying away body for burial
STORYLINE:
Seven Afghan civilians including two children were killed on Monday when their vehicle hit a landmine in the eastern province of Laghman.
A statement from the provincial government said a group of women and children had gone with a male driver into the hills to collect firewood.
On their way back, their vehicle hit the explosive device and all inside were killed.
"The victims were our close relatives, our sisters, brothers and mothers. It was an accidental incident. A mine was placed there," said a relative of the victims.
Two people were also injured in the explosion, which happened in Mehterlam, in the centre of Laghman province, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
In another attack in the east of the country on Monday 13 people, including 10 schoolchildren and two international service members, were killed in an attack by a suicide bomber targeting an American military delegation outside a government office, officials said.
Monday's attacks come as the Taliban and other militants step up bombings nationwide in a major test of the ability of Afghan soldiers and police to hold ground without international military forces, who are now withdrawing.
Insurgents appear to have intensified their attacks as the 2014 withdrawal of most international forces looms, using a broad range of tactics from suicide bombings to improvised bombs accidentally detonated by passing vehicles that often kill civilians.
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