A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing a district police chief and two of his bodyguards, police said Monday.
The blast happened late Sunday as the group drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of troubled Helmand province, to Garmser district.
“Mohammad Saifullah, the police chief of Garmser district in Helmand province, was killed along with two bodyguards when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle last night,” said Helmand police chief Mohammad Hakim Angar.
The attack happened on the same day seven people were killed by a suicide bomber as they returned from prayers at the start of Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha in Baghlan, northern Afghanistan.