The victims were driving to the provincial capital Taloqan for a local government meeting.Kabul (ANTARA News/AFP) - A bomb attack killed five people including a district mayor and a local member of the government-run peace council when it tore through their vehicle in northern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said.
The authorities blamed the attack in Takhar province`s Ishkamish district on Taliban insurgents.
The victims were driving to the provincial capital Taloqan for a local government meeting, provincial administration spokesman Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi told AFP.
The blast killed a Takhar member of the High Peace Council (HPC), Haji Hashim, and the district`s mayor, Abdul Aziz, along with three other men, he said.
The HPC is a government body assigned to make peace with the Taliban, which has been waging an insurgency since being ousted from power in the 2001 US-led invasion.
The head of the HPC, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated in Kabul last September in a suicide attack carried out by a militant posing as a Taliban peace envoy.
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