(17 Aug 2007)
1. Wide shot of street near site of explosion
2. Police vehicles at scene
3. Afghan police and locals standing next to damaged vehicle of Khariudin Achakzai, the chief of Kandahar's Zhari district
4. Wide shot of people at scene of explosion
5. Various of damaged vehicle
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Samad, Afghan police officer:
"The district chief came out from his home at the main gate and the suicide bomber was waiting outside his home. When the district chief came out, the suicide bomber approached him, detonated himself and the district chief and three of his children have been killed and two children wounded."
7. Police and locals standing beside damaged car
STORYLINE
A suicide bomber killed a district chief and three of his children in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Friday, officials said.
A police officer at the scene said the bomber was waiting for Khariudin Achakzai, the chief of Kandahar's Zhari district, when he emerged from his home with five of his children.
"The suicide bomber approached him, detonated himself and the district chief and three of his children have been killed and two children wounded," Afghan police officer, Abdul Samad, said.
Television footage showed a damaged vehicle. According to reports Khariudin Achakzai was approaching the car when the blast went off.
In other violence in the country's east, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops were hit by a roadside bomb before coming under small-arms and mortar fire, officials said in a statement.
The alliance did not disclose the exact location of the incident.
The ensuing gunfight left five Afghan civilians dead and three others wounded, NATO said.
Violence in Afghanistan has risen sharply during the last two months.
More than 3,700 people, mostly militants, have been killed in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an Associated Press tally of casualty figures provided by Western and Afghan officials.
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