2 UN Doctors Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack in Afghanistan
By VOA News
14 September 2008
Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide car bomb attack has killed two Afghan doctors working for the United Nations.
Officials say the attack occurred Sunday while a U.N. convoy was traveling towards the town of Spin Boldak near the Pakistan border. The doctors' driver was also killed and as many as 15 others were injured during the attack.
The two doctors worked for the United Nations World Health Organization and were traveling to Spin Boldak to vaccinate people against polio.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, but Taliban insurgents are active in the area and regularly use suicide bombings against Afghan and foreign troops.
In Ghanzi province on Saturday, militants killed at least seven police officers.
In a separate attack on Saturday, Afghan authorities also said the governor of eastern Logar province was among four people also killed by a remote-controlled bomb.
The Logar police chief General Mustafa Khan says Governor Abdullah Wardak was on his way to work when a bomb exploded under his car in the town of Paghman.
The blast also killed his driver and two bodyguards.
Taliban militants claimed responsibility for that attack. Wardak was an opponent of the Taliban regime ousted by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Afghanistan's president has condemned the killing of Wardak. The former cabinet minister was the second Afghan governor to be assassinated in recent years.
Logar province has seen a rise in Taliban activity in recent months. In August, the group claimed responsibility for killing three female international aid workers and their Afghan driver in the province.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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