KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official says assailants gunned down the statistics chief of an eastern Afghan district as he returned from morning prayers, in the latest of a wave of assassinations.
The provincial spokesman says the man, Gul Mohammad, was killed outside his home before dawn Tuesday, July 13, as he returned from his local mosque in Charkh district of Logar province. The attackers escaped, and are believed to be Taliban insurgents.
Spokesman Dim Mohammad Darwesh says a second Logar official was shot and seriously wounded in another ambush Tuesday morning in the provincial capital.
Insurgents have been waging a campaign of terror against civilian officials, trying to sow fear and discourage competent people from working with President Hamid Karzai’s government.
