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| Attacks in Afghanistan kill 5 police officers |
| 2017-09-27 |
| [DAWN] Attacks in two neighbouring provinces in Afghanistan killed at least five coppers, Afghan officials said on Tuesday, while a sixth policeman died in a gunbattle with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in another province. In western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, two coppers died in a roadside kabooming while in neighbouring Farah province, three were killed when a bombing targeted their checkpoint. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attacks but officials in both provinces blamed the Taliban. Insurgents have been active in both Herat and Farah as the Taliban stepped up their attacks against Afghan cops across the country this year. Jelani Farhad, front man for the provincial governor in Herat, said that along with the two who died in the attack there, three other officers were maimed. The police were on a routine patrol in Ghoryan district when the bomb went kaboom!on Tuesday, he added. In Farah province, where the three officers were killed, Mohammad Naser Mehri, front man for the provincial governor, said turbans attacked the checkpoint and triggered a gunbattle that lasted for two hours. |
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