Four Afghan children and a woman were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the country’s troubled south

Four Afghan children and a woman were killed Monday when the vehicle they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb in the country's troubled south, police said.
  
Six other people were also injured when the blast tore apart a minivan in the volatile Chora district of Uruzgan province.

"Five civilians were killed -- four children and one woman -- and six others wounded, one woman, two children and three men," a spokesman for Uruzgan's police chief Farid Ail said.