Roadside bombings on Wednesday killed a local Afghan government official and a NATO service member, authorities said. Sarhadi Zewak, a spokesman for Laghman province, said the head of Dawlat Shahi district, died Wednesday when his motorcycle hit a roadside bomb. He was on his way to his office with a school headmaster, who was injured in the explosion, Zewak was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. NATO said the coalition service member was killed Wednesday in the south. Separately, the Helmand provincial governor's office said three local Afghan policemen were killed in Musa Qala district on Tuesday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near their vehicle.
