Provincial official, guard killed in bomb attack in N. Afghanistan

Faizabad [Afghanistan ] April 25: A senior provincial official along with his security guard were killed and eight others injured in a bomb attack in Afghanistan's northern province of Badakhshan on Sunday, a local source confirmed.
Mawlawi Abdul Fatah, head of province's Mines and Petroleum Department, and one of his bodyguards were killed when a bomb attached to his pick-up truck was detonated in Police District 4 in the provincial capital Faizabad, the source told Xinhua anonymously.
Five people aboard the vehicle and three passersby were also wounded in the blast which came roughly at mid-day, according to the source.
The wounded were transported to a provincial hospital in the city.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.
In recent months, war-torn Afghanistan has been hit by a series of terror attacks reportedly staged by militants of the Islamic State (IS) group opposing the Taliban-led caretaker government.
Source: Xinhua