"He survived but unfortunately two of his bodyguards were killed and
two wounded. It is still unclear if he was the target," he said.
Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills two guards forhuman rights group
(Presstv)
Two security guards working for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission were killed in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday when a roadside bomb blew up as their vehicle passed, a police official said.
The
provincial head of the AIHRC, which monitors human rights in
Afghanistan, was in the vehicle when the bomb detonated, Nangarhar
police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said.
"He survived but unfortunately two of his bodyguards were killed and two wounded. It is still unclear if he was the target," he said.
Nicholas Haysom,
head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, condemned
the attack, the latest in a wave that has intensified this year as the
insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul has spread.
"The climate of fear created by such attacks threatens vital human rights work carried out throughout Afghanistan," he said in a statement.
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