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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Gunmen kill Afghan district chief, 5 other people By RAHIM FAIEZ,Associated Press Writer - Monday, January 18 Send IM Story Print KABUL – Gunmen opened fire on a local government convoy Sunday in western Afghanistan, killing six people, including a district chief, police said. Afghan officials have frequently been targeted by violence as militants seek to derail efforts to establish government control over regions outside Kabul. Raouf Ahmedi, a spokesman for police in western Afghanistan, blamed Taliban militants, saying the gunmen opened fire from several directions. The attack occurred as the convoy was traveling near the main town of Chishti Sharif in the district of the same name, according to Ahmedi. Those killed included district chief Abdul Qadus Qayyum, the local director of criminal investigations, another employee, a bodyguard and two policemen. International forces also killed an Afghan civilian Sunday after opening fire at a speeding vehicle in southern Afghanistan, NATO said. The shooting occurred in the Garmsir district of Helmand province, a Taliban-influenced area expected to be a major focus of President Barack Obama's troop surge. The Afghan man was shot in the chest and died of his wounds after he was transported to a medical facility at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, NATO said in a statement. He was one of six people traveling at a high speed in a large vehicle with no headlights, but the other five passengers weren't injured, it said. The vehicle stopped after international soldiers fired three to five rounds into the grill. NATO said it was conducting a joint investigation with Afghan officials into the shooting. Garmsir has been the site of violent demonstrations this week after rumors spread that NATO forces had desecrated a Quran. NATO denies the rumors. Five other Afghan civilians were wounded in the area on Wednesday when U.S. Marines and Afghan forces opened fire during one protest outside another military base, NATO has said. The U.N. says the number of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. and other international forces has declined sharply after top commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal tightened rules on the use of airstrikes and other weaponry to reduce civilians casualties. But Sunday's shooting underscored the dangers still facing Afghans who find themselves caught in the middle of escalating fighting. Persistent violence and political turmoil have complicated U.S.-backed efforts to build a government capable of combating corruption and pursuing reforms considered key to defeating the Taliban and its allies as the U.S. and its international partners send 37,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan. A spokesman conceded Sunday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai might not have Cabinet in place before a key international conference in London after parliament again rejected a slew of his nominees. But the president will name caretaker ministers for the vacant posts _ either leaving the current ministers in charge or naming new people, according to spokesman Waheed Omar. Two weeks ago, parliament rejected 70 percent of Karzai's Cabinet picks, forcing him to present a second list. On Saturday, 224 lawmakers present approved only seven of 17 new nominees, including Karzai's longtime national security adviser Zalmay Rasoul as foreign minister. The lawmakers also confirmed a new justice minister and a woman as minister of Work and Social Affairs/Martyred and Disabled, but they rejected 10 others. The rejections leave Karzai without confirmed leaders for 11 of the 25 Cabinet posts. Washington and allies have been pressing Karzai to assemble his second-term administration ahead of a Jan. 28 London conference aimed at streamlining aid efforts for Afghanistan. Omar says no formal decision has been made, but "our understanding is that we may not be able to do so." He said Karzai might have to wait until after parliament returns from recess in early March to offer a new list. In other violence, a roadside bomb killed two Afghan soldiers, while five militants were killed in joint Afghan operations elsewhere in Helmand on Saturday, according to the Defense Ministry. 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