Car Bomb Attack Kills Eight Security Force Members in Afghanistan

File—Afghan policemen outside a government compound in Kabul that was hit by an attack on Dec. 25, 2018. The Jan. 20, 2019, car bomb blast on a highway near Kabul targeted a convoy, killing at least eight Afghan security force members. Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

KABUL, Afghanistan—A car bomb attack on a convoy of the governor of Afghanistan’s southern Logar Province killed at least eight Afghan security force members on Jan. 20 but left the provincial chief unharmed, local officials said.

Shahpoor Ahmadzai, the spokesman for Logar’s provincial police, said the bomber detonated an explosives-packed car close to the governor’s convoy on a major highway between Logar and the capital Kabul.