KABUL, Afghanistan, April 23, SPA -- Assailants abducted and beheaded an Afghan intelligence service employee and struck one of the agency's vehicles with a remote-controlled bomb in a separate attack, killing six employees and wounding three, officials said Monday. The latest violence follows a bomb attack Sunday thatkilled two intelligence service officers, a soldier and adriver in Mehtar Lam, the capital of eastern Laghmanprovince. On Monday in Laghman's Alingar district, an intelligenceservice vehicle driving from neighboring Nuristan provincewas hit by a remote-controlled bomb, said provincial policechief Abdul Karim. He said six of the agency's workers werekilled, while three others were wounded. In Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, an intelligenceservice employee was invited into a home, then kidnappedand beheaded Sunday by the Taliban, said deputy governor Mohammad Kazim Allayar. He said the owner of the house is currently under investigation. On Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in theeastern city of Khost, killing six civilians and wounding40 others, officials were quoted as saying by the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/443476