Bomb kills Afghan tribal elders

A Taliban-style bomb attack blew up a vehicle, killing three Afghan tribal elders in the west of the country on Sunday, police said. The group were attacked in the western province of Farah, a troubled region packed with Taliban-linked insurgents and bandits waging a guerrilla war against the US-backed administration in Kabul.
"An IED (improvised explosive device) blast in Bala Buluk district of Farah province killed three and injured two civilians," said Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, police spokesman for western Afghanistan.
Provincial government spokesman Naqibullah Farahi told AFP that the victims were "local elders en route to Farah city from the district."
President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the bombing and described the attackers as "the enemies of Afghanistan" a term Afghan officials use to refer to Taliban and other insurgents.