KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A district official, his son and a guard have been killed by a remote-controlled car bomb in a dangerous district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
Police in Arghandab said that district chief Abdul Jabar was on his way home when he and the two others were killed in the blast on Tuesday. Deputy police chief Fazel Ahmed Sherzad says the bomb was planted in a car and was detonated when the district chief’s vehicle passed by.
A suicide bomber killed 56 people at a wedding party in Arghandab last week.
Insurgents are waging a campaign of targeted killings in Kandahar where NATO and Afghan forces are ramping up security to drive the Taliban from their spiritual homeland and bolster the Afghan central government’s influence in the area.
