KABUL, September 29, SPA -- Officials say the civilian death toll in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan has reached 30. Kandahar provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazaisays nine women and seven children are among the 30 killed. A packed bus traveling from the western city of Herat toKandahar hit a land mine in Maiwand district Tuesday. Thirty-nine people were wounded. A U.N. report issued Saturday said August was thedeadliest month of the year for civilians because ofviolence from the insurgency. A total of 1,500 civiliansdied in Afghanistan from January through August, up from1,145 for the same period of 2008, according to a report of The Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/704274