KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 9—An opposition leader and former defense chief, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was injured and his close aide was killed today in an explosion in northern Afghanistan, an opposition spokesman said.
Two men from Algeria posing as journalists are suspected of hiding the explosive device in their camera, the spokesman, Hajji Kahar, said in a satellite telephone interview from Khodja Bahauddin in northern Takhar province, where the explosion occurred.
It was the local decapitation strike.
