Six people, including a district chief and five low-ranking officials, were killed by Taliban on Thursday in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan. The district chief Mohammad Qadir was killed when his convoy was ambushed by Taliban in Afghanistan's comparatively peaceful Laghman province. Four security guards of the official also killed in the attack.In a separate attack in the insurgency-hit Helmand province, situated south of the country, Taliban attacked and killed a security officer and his brother. Both the slain were on way to attend their duty in the provincial capital of Lashkargah.
Taliban had distributed night letters in the same province about a fortnight back asking government officials to quit their jobs and stop cooperation with the Afghan and US forces stationed in the area. Fearing action from the insurgents, hundreds of officials have either left their jobs or migrated to safer places. Early in the morning, seven Afghan civilians were injured when a suicide bomber missed a Canadian forces' convoy in the Kandahar province.