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KABUL — Suspected insurgents Wednesday set off a remote-controlled bomb that killed an anti-Taliban tribal leader and six police officers escorting him, authorities in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province said.
The apparent assassination took place in Zhari, one of several strategic districts ringing Kandahar city, where U.S. forces last year led a major offensive to dislodge the Taliban.
The slain tribal elder was Abdul Wali Khan, a member of the district’s development council. He was returning to his home district from Kandahar.
Provincial spokesman Zalmay Ayubi said police believed Khan was targeted, probably because of his anti-Taliban stance.
Denver Post wire services
