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Roundup: Afghan conflicts leave 6 dead, 10 wounded

Xinhua, February 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

Militancy and conflicts claimed six lives including four police and two insurgents and injured 10 others including five militants in the western and eastern part of the militancy-plagued Afghanistan on Sunday, officials confirmed Monday.

Four police were killed and three others injured Sunday night as anti-government militants presumably Taliban fighters stormed a police checkpoint in Chasht district, Herat province with Herat city as its capital 640 km west of Kabul, head of Herat provincial council Kamran Alizai said Monday. "A police constable apparently affiliated with Taliban outfit had guided a number of insurgents last night to attack a checkpoint in Wardaka village of Chasht district during which four police were killed and three others injured,"Alizai told Xinhua.

Meantime, the police chief of Chasht district, Ghulam Rasould, in talks with media confirmed the incident and said that a police constable from the checkpoint had also escaped with the militants after the offensive on police checkpoint.

Taliban-led militancy and conflicts have intensified since NATO- led forces ended combat mission on Dec. 31, 2014 and Afghan national security forces assumed security responsibility from Jan. 1 this year.

In a parallel event happened in the eastern Nangarhar province with Jalalabad city as its capital 120 km east of Kabul on Sunday night, two militants were killed and seven others including two police sustained injuries, spokesman for provincial government Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said Monday. "Taliban militants attacked police checkpoint in Bamokhil area in Pachiragam district of Nangarhar last night and police returned fire triggering gun battle which lasted for a while during which two armed insurgents were killed and seven others including five insurgents and two police sustained injures,"Abdulzai told reporters.

The militants have fled the area, he said, adding police would do their best to ensure durable peace and security in the district.

Taliban militants fighting the government are yet to make comment. Endi