Six security personnel to face prosecution

Monitoring Desk

KABUL: The officials in eastern Nangarhar province are saying that six security personnel are due to face prosecution over a deadly incident in a money exchange market.

Provincial governor’s spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said Wednesday that six security personnel have been introduced to the relevant attorney general offices for the incident that took place in Jalalabad money exchange market few days ago.

At least three people have been arrested in connection to an attack in Jalalabad city money exchange market that left a local trader dead, the local officials said Monday.

Provincial governor Muhammad Gulab Mangal told reporters that the men carried out an attack on a trader in the second police district of the city twelve days ago.

Mangal further added that the trader as killed and five others including three women were wounded attack which sparked anger among the city residents.

He had earlier promised that the other individuals who remained short on their duty will also be introduced to the attorney general’s office for the prosecution.

This comes as criminal incidents involving murders and kidnappings are on the rise in the key cities of the country as the observers believe that a sharp rise in criminal related incidents have roots to growing poverty in the country.