By Xinhua
Kabul : A roadside remote controlled bomb blast has killed two tribal elders, including a former provincial governor, in Tirin Kot district of southern Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, the police said Tuesday.
“The two were heading towards their houses from a mosque at around 7:00 p.m. Monday when the bomb exploded,” provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat told Xinhua.
Fazl Rabi had served as Uruzgan governor during the Mohammad Najibullah regime in the 1990s and as deputy governor of Uruzgan 2003-2004, Himat said.
No group or individual claimed responsibility for the blast.
Militancy-related violence left over 6,000 people dead in war-torn Afghanistan in 2007, the most violent year since the Taliban regime was toppled six years ago.
Both Afghan and NATO commanders expect more terror attacks this year in the country.