2 Afghan civilians killed in blast in North province

Two Afghan civilians were killed and five were wounded in a roadside bombing in the country's northern province of Faryab on Monday, police said.Two civilians were killed and five others wounded when a civilian vehicle touched off a roadside bomb in Khwaja Sabz Posh district early Monday morning," provincial police chief Nabi Jan Mullahkhil told Xinhua.He said the injured were shifted to a hospital in provincial capital Maimana city in the province 425 km northwest of capital Kabul.The police official blamed insurgent Taliban for planting the bomb. The Taliban insurgent group uses Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or roadside bombs and suicide bombers in their attacks which also inflicted casualties on civilians.A total of 2,754 Afghan civilians were killed in conflict- related violence in 2012, 12 percent down compared with 2011, according to a UN report released in Kabul last month.The UN report attributed 81 percent of the civilian deaths to the attacks of Taliban and other armed groups, another 8 percent of the deaths were attributed to Afghan and NATO-led forces and 11 percent were unattributed.