| Four Afghan police officers were killed and five wounded when their car was hit by a blast in the central province of Uruzgan on Tuesday, officials said, in an attack for which Taliban guerrillas claimed responsibility. Provincial governor Jan Mohammad Khan told Reuters Mohammad Ibrahim Akhunzada, the security chief of the province's Chorah district, was among the wounded. He said the blast was caused by a roadside bomb, but provincial police chief Rozi Khan blamed a land mine. Rozi Khan said the blast happened about 1 mile from the town of Deh Rawud. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said guerrillas carried out the attack. The provincial governor said the attack appeared to be the work of the Taliban or its militant allies. Hakimi also said the Taliban killed two Afghan officials in an attack in the district of Chorah in the afternoon in which one guerrilla died. Local officials could not immediately be reached to confirm this report. |