KHOST: Unidentified gunmen assassinated a deputy education chief in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, police said, as seven Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle outside Kandahar.
| If it's got something to do with education it has to be un-Islamic. Obviously he had to be killed. |
Sayed Usman Hussaini was on his way to work in Khost province when he was shot and killed, police spokesman Wazir Badshah told AFP. Meanwhile, police chief Sayed Agha Saqib said a remote-controlled bomb resulted in the deaths of the seven policemen. Separately, NATO soldiers in a convoy fired and wounded an Afghan on a motorbike in Kandahar City. Local residents said another person had been killed and four wounded in the firing. |