JALALABAD: A roadside bomb ripped through a government vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing five people including three senior district officials, police said.            

 

The remote-controlled bomb in eastern Nangarhar province's Khogyani district killed the district chief, his police commander and intelligence chief as well as a policeman and a passer-by, police spokesman Ghafoor Khan said.        

 

The officials were travelling to a village to visit a school that the Taliban-led militants torched late Sunday, Khan said. Purported Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the attack, saying his Taliban fighters detonated the bomb which was planted on a road.