Balkh police front man Adil Shah Adil confirmed the earth-shattering kaboom and said it happened near Sina Stadium in Mazar-e-Sharif city when a convoy of Afghan cops was passing through the area.
"Three of the maimed are at death's door," said Ghausuddin Anwari, the head of Abu Ali Sina Balkhi hospital in Balkh.
This comes hours after at least two security force members were killed in separate blasts in the northern province of Balkh and the eastern province of Paktika
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on Saturday, local officials said.
Paktika police front man Adil Shah Adil said that one security force member was killed and eight others were maimed in a suicide kaboom in Dedadi district of the northern province of Balkh on Saturday morning.
The target of the attack was Mohammad Hashim, an NDS commander, who sustained injuries in the blast, Adil said.
The blast at around 10:30 am local time in Golaee Khasa village of Dehdadi district and targeted the convoy of the commander, Adil added.
This comes hours after an attack by unknown gunnies in Gardez city in which Ayub Gharwal, the deputy head of Paktia Provincial Council, was killed.
Meanwhile,
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Col. Asif Tokhi, security officer of Paktika police headquarters, was killed in a kaboom in Yayakhil district of the province, Paktika governor’s front man Mohammadullah Amini said, adding that the district recently witnessed festivities between government forces and the Taliban
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Violence remains high in Afghanistan amid the peace negotiations in Doha that started last week.
EU special envoy Roland Kobia on Friday said that UN figures show violence in Afghanistan in the last five weeks has been the highest in the last five years.
He added that the Taliban must now show capacity to act politically, not as snuffies using arms to twist arms.
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