A roadside bomb tore through a car in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding five others

A roadside bomb tore through a car in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding five others, the provincial administration said.
  
The dead included five children, two women and five men. They were on their way from neighboring Pakistan, the Paktika provincial administration said in a statement. Mohibullah Samim the provincial governor blamed the bombing on "enemies of peace who once again revealed their tyrant face to the public," the statement added.

This came as about 500 people poured on the streets of Afghanistan's capital on Sunday to protest over the deaths of nine children killed in a NATO air raid.
  
The protesters chanted "Death to America -- death to the invaders" while marching through central Kabul. The protest follows similar demonstrations in the northeast province of Kunar following the deaths on Tuesday of the nine children who were killed while collecting firewood in the province's Dar-e-Pech district.
  
President Hamid Karzai angrily condemned the killings and US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, the commander of the US-led troops in Afghanistan, apologized for the incident.

The protesters carried banners with anti-US slogans. One banner read: "Occupation = killing + destruction."