A roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing a district police chief and three policemen, an official said.The police chief of Pachir Wa Agam district of Nangarhar province had escaped an ambush by militants and was on the way to his office when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb, provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
“The police chief of Pachir Wa Agam along with three policemen were killed and seven police were wounded,” he said.
He blamed the “enemies of Afghanistan”, a term used by Afghan officials to refer to Taleban, for the attack. The Taleban, who are waging an insurgency against the US-backed Afghan government, were not immediately available to comment.
In the neighbouring Kunar province on Sunday, a roadside bomb hit a passenger van in the provinceÂ’s Shegal district, killing four civilians, the interior ministry said in a statement. Another civilian was wounded in the blast, it said.