At least eleven people, all belonging to a single family, were killed in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

The incident has taken place in the vicinity of Mamand Dara area of Achin district before noon today.

The provincial government media office in a statment said at least eleven people, including a woman and six children were killed in the explosion.

The Taliban militants and other militants including ISIS often use improvised explosive device as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.

However, in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are killed while in some cases the Taliban militants are themselves blown up in premature explosions.

Anti-government elements must immediately end the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of all improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in areas frequented by civilians, said UNAMA in a special human rights report released few days earlier.

The special report – titled “Increasing Harm to Afghan Civilians form the Deliberate and Indiscriminate Use of Improvised Explosive Devices” – documents a sharp increase from 1 January – 30 September 2018 in the killing and maiming of Afghan civilians by IEDs, which have caused almost half of the civilian casualties from conflict-related violence.