Categories: Afghanistan

5 cops killed in separate incidents

Monitoring Desk

KANDAHAR: Five police personnel were killed in separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces of Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.

Gunmen opened fire on police near Madina Market in the limits of fourth security zone of Kandahar city today, governor’s spokesman Aziz Ahmad Azizi told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP).

Two police personnel and an attacker were killed while a cop sustained injuries in the five-minute gunfight, he said. The attackers fled the scene, he added.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack till the filling of this report.

Separately, reliable sources told AIP that Taliban attacked a police van in Ter Pol area in Kohsan district of Herat province yesterday evening.

Resultantly, the sources said three police personnel were killed and another sustained injuries.

Meanwhile, Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP that four police personnel including two officers were killed in the clash.

Taliban seized three weapons, he added. (AIP)

The Frontier Post

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