KABUL, Aug 5: Two police officers were killed and eight others wounded on Saturday in a roadside bomb aimed at a district governor in Afghanistan’s troubled south, an official spokesman said.

Shadi Khan, the governor of Mianshin district in Kandahar province, was on his way to Kandahar city when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the Shawali Kot area, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.

Two police guards were killed and eight others were wounded in the roadside bomb blast, but fortunately the district governor survived, he said.

The governor blamed the attack on “enemies of Afghanistan”, a term usually used by Afghan officials to refer to the remnants of the Taliban.

In a separate incident, Taliban attacked a police patrol in southern Ghazni province overnight which left an intelligence official and a rebel killed and two policemen wounded, provincial police chief Tafsir Khan said on Saturday.

A solider with Nato-led peacekeepers died on Saturday and three others were wounded in a traffic accident in southern Afghanistan, a statement said.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers were travelling in an armoured jeep as part of a convoy when the accident took place.

The cause is not known but “enemy action has been ruled out”, it said.

“One ISAF soldier is dead and three others are wounded following a vehicle accident at noon today in Kandahar province,” according to the Nato statement said.

The wounded soldiers were evacuated by helicopter to the multinational forces hospital at Kandahar Airfield after receiving first aid by an ISAF soldier at the site.

Their nationality has yet to be released. Two policemen killed in Afghan blast—AFP