A bomb attack killed on Monday five Afghans including a district mayor and a local member of the government-run peace council.

A bomb attack killed on Monday five Afghans including a district mayor and a local member of the government-run peace council.

The attack took place when the bomb tore through the victims’ vehicle in northern Afghan district of Ishkamish in Takhar province.
The Afghan authorities blamed the attack on Taliban attack.

The killed 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.