A roadside bomb had targeted a police vehicle, killing ten people in northwest Afghanistan late Monday.

A roadside bomb had targeted a police vehicle, killing ten people in northwest Afghanistan late Monday.

The attack, which took place in Badghis province, killed two officers, and also killed eight civilians from the same family in another vehicle which was following it, said Badghis provincial council chairman Faizullah Azimi.

"A mine planted by the Taliban hit a police vehicle in Qadis district  yesterday evening leaving two policemen and eight civilians dead," Azimi told AFP. "All the civilians were members of the same family."
He added: "Two policemen and one child were also injured."

It was not the first attack during al-Adha Eid in Afghanistan, where a Taliban suicide bomber killed on Sunday seven people returning from prayers at a mosque in the city of Baghlan, northern Afghanistan.