Afghan officials: Roadside bombs kill 4 people in south, including district police chief
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Afghan officials say two separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan have killed four people, including a district police chief.
A spokesman for the provincial governor in southern Uruzgan province, Abdullah Himmat, says a bomb killed the police chief of the Chora district and two of his bodyguards while they were on patrol early Thursday.
Ummar Zawaq, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, says a roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded two others in the Marjah district, also on Thursday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Violence has been escalating around Afghanistan in recent weeks as the spring fighting season has started. Insurgent attacks usually drop off during the country's harsh winter weather.