NIMROZ, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least 26 people were killed during the detonation of two roadside bombs, including one that struck a passenger bus in the southwestern region of Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

The larger explosion took place at around 4 p.m. local time in the Khash Rod District of Afghanistan's southwestern province of Nimroz, Press TV reported. The passenger bus was hit by the bomb while traveling on the highway between Nimroz and Kandahar.

Earlier on Thursday, a separate roadside bomb killed another 6 people in Lashkar Gah, in the country's Helmand Province. The fatal victims of the blast were a mother and father and their four children.

On Monday, at least 7 people were killed in two separate roadside bombs in the southern region of Afghanistan when a vehicle in the Zardalo area of the Qarah Bagh District in the country's Ghazni Province struck an improvised explosive device (IED) at around 7:30 a.m. local time. Four people were killed during the incident. Around 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second roadside bomb detonated in Ghazni City, killing another three people, including one woman.

Late last month, at least 12 people were killed when another roadside bomb detonated and hit a truck carrying a group of approximately 40 workers in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar.

And in late April, a police vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, killing 5 border police guards in the Loy Karez area of the Spin Boldak district in the country's southern province of Kandahar.

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