Five people killed in roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan

Kabul: Five people were killed, including police officers, when a roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday,a provincial police chief said.

The blast happened in the eastern Khost province close to the border with Pakistan, said police chief General Mohammad Ayub.

He could not say how many of the people killed were policemen and how many were civilians but he blamed the Taliban for the attack.