Taliban attack kills 8 election officials in Afghanistan

Taliban insurgents killed eight election officials in a bomb attack in the southern Kandahar province, Afghan officials said on Sunday.Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, said that the employees were in the district of Maruf conducting voter registration, when Saturday night's attack occurred.A defense ministry spokesman, Fawad Aman, said Taliban detonated four stolen Humvees full of explosives outside the district's police headquarters, where the election officia