Kabul_(dpa) _ Sixteen people, including a presidential campaign worker, were killed in shootings and bombings in eastern and southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
In the eastern province of Laghman, a local campaign official working for presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah was shot dead Tuesday morning by unknown gunmen in the Dawlat Shah district ahead of August 20 elections.
Rahm Khuda Mukhlis, district police chief, confirmed the attack on officials of Abdullah's campaign and said one person was killed and two were injured.
Three employees of a private construction company and three civilians were killed in the south-eastern province of Khost.
The vehicle of a private road construction company struck a roadside mine Monday and killed at least three company staff, said Fazal Rabi, a spokesman for Khost's governor.
"After the incident, security officials of the road construction company opened fire on a gathering of people," he added. "As a result, three civilians were also killed."
The civilian deaths were caused by a misunderstanding, said the spokesman, adding that an investigation of the incident was under way.
In a third incident, eight guards working for a private security company were killed and four were injured by a remote-controlled mine in the restive southern province of Helmand, the Interior Ministry said.
The ministry said the incident took place in the Yakhchal area of the province's Grishik district.
No group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the Hamayoon company's guards, but the ministry said the mine was planted by the "enemies of Afghanistan."
The ministry said in another statement that one worker of a road construction company was killed and two others were injured by a roadside bomb in the Kutlan area of Sharana city in the south-eastern province of Paktika.
The incident took place late Monday when the workers were busy in road construction-related activities, it said. dpa sa ls
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