Helmand

 
LASHKARGAH (PAN): At least four civilians and a policeman were killed and five others wounded during separate bombings in southern Helmand province, officials said on Saturday.
The civilians were killed when the vehicle they were traveling in struck a roadside bomb in the Mohajir Bazaar, Greshk district police chief Lt. Col. Hekmatullah Haqmal said.

 
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Officials have opened an investigation of police officers suspected of links to insurgents in the southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday.
The investigation -- part of a reform programme -- was launched after the recent killing of several policemen in "insider attacks" in Greshk district, Brig. Gen. Abdul Nabi Ilham, the provincial police chief, said.