The ongoing militancy and violent incidents have claimed the lives of at least seven civilians and injured more than a dozen others in Afghanistan over the past two days.

In the latest violent incident which harmed non-combatants in the conflict-hit Afghanistan, one innocent civilian lost his life and 14 others were wounded as a suicide bomber blew himself up in northern Mazar-e-Shairf city, the capital of Balkh province 305 km north of national capital Kabul city, on Tuesday.

"The bloody suicide bombing occurred at 12:50 p.m. local time after a militant detonated his explosive-jacket at Mandawi, the city's food and fruit market near the main square of the city killing a passerby on the spot and injuring 14 others, all innocent civilian including a woman and two children," an official told Xinhua but refused to be named, saying authorized officials would brief the media.

Several shops and fruit handcarts were also damaged due to the blast, according to eyewitnesses.

However, Interior Ministry in a statement released hours after the blast in Mazar-e-Sharif described it as coward terrorist act and condemned it in strongest term.

A day earlier on Monday, a roadside bomb struck a civilian car in the eastern Ghazni province killing six travelers including two women and three children, police said.

More than two dozen civilians have been killed in similar attacks and violent incidents over the past two weeks across the war-torn country, according to reports.

Civilians often bear the brunt of war in the insurgency-plagued Afghanistan as more than 1,600 civilians had been killed and over 3,560 others injured in the first half of the current year, according to a report of UN mission in Afghanistan released last month.

Source : XINHUA