One civilian was killed and two others injured as a bomb blast struck a car in the eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Fahim Amiri said.

"A magnetic bomb attached in a car of tribal elder Hajji Mirza Mohammad exploded at around 01:00 p.m. local time today killing the elder and injuring two others," Amiri told Xinhua.

The official pointed finger at the Taliban militants, saying the armed outfit by organizing subversive activities was attempting to terrorize the locals.

Civilians often bear the brunt of war in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan as more than 3,540 civilians had been killed and more than 7,450 others injured in 2015, according to a report of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released here in February.

Source: XINHUA