KABUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Thirteen Afghan civilians were killed when their motorised rickshaw was hit by a roadside bomb in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a provincial official said.
Mukhlis Afghan, spokesman for the governor of Paktika province, said several women and children were among the dead in the explosion. (Reporting by Elyas Wahdat; Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)
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