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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Afghan commander killed by Taliban |
| 2005-06-03 |
| The commander of a pro-government Afghan militia force was killed by a roadside bomb on Friday in an attack blamed on Taliban insurgents. It was the latest in a wave of bomb attacks that have killed and wounded dozens of people in Afghanistan in the past few months. Shadi Khan, the former chief of Deshu district police in the southern Helmand province, was killed and two of his bodyguards were wounded when his car was hit by the blast, said Haji Mohammad Wali, spokesman for the provincial governor. He blamed Taliban insurgents but drug running and tribal and factional rivalry are known to have caused violence in the province in the past. Two Afghan deminers were killed and five wounded by a roadside bomb in Helmand on Wednesday. They were the fifth deminers to be killed in two weeks. Twenty people, including the police chief of the capital, Kabul, were killed by a suicide bomber in nearby Kandahar province on Wednesday. The Kandahar governor blamed the al Qaeda militant network. In a separate attack, an energy official in Zabul province, also in the south, was killed in a Taliban ambush on Thursday night as he was transporting electrical equipment, a provincial official said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |