Khalid Pashtun, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said that Taliban militants attacked and set fire to a district police headquarters last night, killing the local police chief.
In Ghazni Province, a police chief and his driver were killed today in a suspected Taliban ambush.
The incidents are the latest in a wave of violence in Afghanistan tied to loyalists of the ousted Taliban regime.
On 11 July, at least five people were killed in a bomb attack in the western city of Herat. Police in Herat Province today said they have detained three men suspected of masterminding the attack.
In another incident, a senior Afghan commander, General Khial Baz, said a mine exploded near his car late yesterday, but he escaped uninjured.
(compiled from wire reports)
In Ghazni Province, a police chief and his driver were killed today in a suspected Taliban ambush.
The incidents are the latest in a wave of violence in Afghanistan tied to loyalists of the ousted Taliban regime.
On 11 July, at least five people were killed in a bomb attack in the western city of Herat. Police in Herat Province today said they have detained three men suspected of masterminding the attack.
In another incident, a senior Afghan commander, General Khial Baz, said a mine exploded near his car late yesterday, but he escaped uninjured.
(compiled from wire reports)
