Two police officers were killed and eight others wounded Saturday in a roadside bomb aimed at a district governor in Afghanistan's troubled south, an official spokesman said.
Shadi Khan, the governor of Mianshin district in Kandahar province, was on his was to Kandahar city when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the Shawali Kot area, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.
In a separate incident, Taliban attacked a police patrol in southern Ghazni province overnight which left an intelligence official and a rebel killed and two police wounded, provincial police chief Tafsir Khan said Saturday.
NATO SOLDIER DIED IN ACCIDENT:
KABUL: A solider with Nato-led peacekeepers died Saturday and three others were wounded in a traffic accident in southern Afghanistan, a statement said.
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers were travelling in an armoured jeep as part of a convoy when the accident took place. The cause is not known but "enemy action has been ruled out", it said.
"One ISAF soldier is dead and three others are wounded following a vehicle accident at noon today in Kandahar province," according to the Nato statement said. Their nationality has yet to be released.