The chief of police installed by the Taliban in the Afghan province of Badakhshan (northeast) was killed Monday by an explosion near the police headquarters in the city of Faizabad, with no claim of responsibility for the attack so far.
The death of the man, identified as the maulavi Abdulhaq Omar, has been confirmed by sources quoted by the news portal Aamaj News and by the Afghan television channel Tolo TV, without for the moment the Taliban have not reacted to the event.
Sources quoted by the Afghan daily ‘Hasht e Subh’ have raised the number of dead to three and added that four other people have been wounded. Several members of the Taliban have been killed in bomb attacks in this province in recent months.
On the other hand, at least two children were killed on Sunday by an anti-personnel mine explosion in Helmand province (south), according to the deputy director of information in the province, Qasim Riaz, who added that a woman was injured in the incident.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
