Police headquarters chief Khyalbaz Sherzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the guerrillas attacked the convoy on its way to Maktab - a remote area of Qarabagh district - earlier this afternoon. Four policemen were wounded in the attack, he explained.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has claimed responsibility for the assault. He said their fighters destroyed three police ranger pick-up, killing and wounding several police.
In neighbouring Logar province, suspected militants fired rockets into Baraki Barak district late Monday night, damaging a school that to be used as polling station for Thursday’s presidential and provincial council elections.
Governor’s spokesman Din Muhammad Darvish confirmed the attack, saying the rockets hit the
Another polling station in Rostamkhel area of Baraki district was targeted with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attack. The attack caused no casualties, but shattered the windowpanes of the building.
Mujahid, however, said their fighters attacked four polling stations in the central province just 60 kilometres from the capital city of
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