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Roundup: Taliban attacks, police operation leave 13 dead in Afghanistan

Xinhua, February 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Militants' attacks and security forces' crackdown against Taliban fighters have claimed 13 lives including a child in Afghanistan since Wednesday, officials said Thursday.

In the latest violent incident, two policemen were gunned down by armed militants riding a motorbike in the western Herat province on Thursday morning, provincial police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said.

"Two unknown armed persons riding a motorbike opened fire on police in Herat city at around 09:30 a.m. local time today, killing one on the spot and badly injuring another," Ahmadi told Xinhua, adding that the injured policeman succumbed to his injuries later.

The attacker escaped the scene after the attack, he added.

This is the second such attack in Herat city since Wednesday.

In the previous attack by unknown persons which occurred Wednesday evening, an anti-Taliban figure, Sia Khan Chongar, along with his wife and daughter were killed.

Moreover, a clash between security forces and Taliban militants in Qaisar district of the northwest Faryab province had left eight people including six insurgents, one police and a child dead.

"The clash which erupted Wednesday evening between militants and local police in Qaisar district and concluded today had killed six Taliban rebels, a local police personnel and an innocent child, " deputy to provincial police chief Mohammad Naeem Andarabi told reporters.

Two militants were injured in the clash, he added. Endi