An official says assailants gunned down the statistics chief of an eastern Afghan district as he returned from morning prayers, according to a report of the Associated Press. The provincial spokesman says the man, Gul Mohammad, was killed outside his home before dawn Tuesday as he returned from his local mosque in Charkh district of Logar province. The attackers escaped, and are believed to be Taliban insurgents. Spokesman Dim Mohammad Darwesh says a second Logar official was shot and seriously wounded in another ambush Tuesday morning in the provincial capital.
