KABUL, Afghanistan, MAY 8 (AP/UNB) - An Afghan official says four Education Ministry employees and a body guard have been killed by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan.

Khorshid Aman, the chief of Urgun district of Paktika province, says the group was traveling from the district to the provincial capital of Sharan when the militants ambushed their two vehicles.

The top education official in the province and one other person in the group also were wounded in Tuesday's attack.