Roadside bomb kills 2 in western Afghanistan

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A roadside bomb blast targeting a district chief killed two people Monday in western Afghanistan, where insurgents also attacked two Americans training police, officials said. The target of the bomb attack in Herat province was the chief of Shindand district, said Rauf Ahmadi, the region's police spokesman. The motorbike bomb missed the district chief but killed two other people, including his son who was riding in a separate vehicle, Ahmadi said. Seven other people were wounded in the blast. Separately, gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying two Americans involved in training Afghan police as they traveled Monday from Islam Qala, the border point between Afghanistan and Iran, also in Herat province, provincial border police Chief Rahmatullah Safi said.