A roadside bombing has killed nine people and wounded two in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.

A roadside bombing has killed nine people and wounded two in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.

The attack took place in the province's Shindand district around midnight Tuesday, when the vehicle the victims were riding in hit the roadside bomb, AP quoted provincial government spokesman Samih Wafa as saying.

All the victims, from the same family, were on their way from one village to another when the bomb exploded. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.