Taliban bombs kill 2 Afghan officials `

The police director of southwestern Nimroz province and a guard were killed late Thursday when a remotely detonated car bomb tore through their vehicle as they were going to evening prayers, an interior ministry spokesman said.

Haji Nafas Khan was the second-most senior policeman in the province.

Another policeman and four civilians were wounded in the blast in the provincial capital Zaranj, ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said.

He blamed the attack on the "enemies of peace and stability", a term officials use to refer to loyalists of the Taliban regime ousted in late 2001.