JALALABAD, (Afghanistan), Oct 30 (AFP): A roadside bomb struck the vehicle of a district intelligence chief in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing him and three colleagues, officials said.
The head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) for the Qarghai district of Laghman province was on his way to work as his vehicle was blown up, provincial spokesman Nizamudin Mangal told AFP.
"The security director and his three friends including his driver were martyred in the blast," Mangal said.
Southern and eastern Afghanistan have been hard hit by a wave of Taliban-led violence, hampering the reconstruction of the country in the wake of the militia's ouster in late 2001 by a US-led invasion.
The insurgency has claimed thousands of lives so far, mostly militants, with hundreds of Afghan and foreign soldiers also killed.
Bomb kills Afghan spy chief, three others
FE Team | Published: October 31, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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