KABUL, Afghanistan, June 4 (UPI) -- A father and three of his children were killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing in Farah province in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said.
Spokesman Afbul Rahman Zhwandy said the bombing occurred as the family's vehicle detonated the device, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The mother of the family was seriously wounded, Zhwandy said.
A family of seven, including four women and two children, died in a similar bombing Monday in Laghman province, east of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
During the past two weeks, war-related violence has killed 125 Afghan civilians and injured 287, a 24 percent increase in total civilian casualties from the same period in 2012, the U.N. mission in the country said Monday.
U.N. officials said Taliban and other militant organizations were responsible for 84 percent of all civilian casualties during the two-week reporting period.
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