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Roundup: Militancy kills 14 security personnel in N. Afghanistan

Xinhua, September 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

Violent incidents obviously organized by Taliban militants have claimed the lives of 14 security personnel in Afghanistan's relatively peaceful northern Balkh and Jauzjan provinces on Tuesday, officials said.

In the latest violent incident, a roadside bomb struck a police van in Dawlatabad district of Balkh province with Mazar-e-Sharif as its capital, 305 km north of the national capital Kabul city, claimed the lives of four police personnel and injured three others, police confirmed.

"A mine planted by militants struck the vehicle of Sabawon Rogh the police chief of Dawlatabad district at around 10:00 a.m. local time today killing him and three others on the spot," deputy to district police chief, Abdul Razaq Qaderi told reporters.

Three more police personnel sustained injuries in the deadly roadside bombing, the official asserted.

The official, however, put the attack on the enemies of peace, a reference to the Taliban militants, but the armed outfit which largely relying on suicide and roadside bombings has yet to claim responsibility.

In another violent incident, which happened in Balkh neighboring Jauzjan province on the same day, 10 Afghan government security personnel were killed as a man in uniform hurled hand grenade to a security checkpoint Tuesday morning, police said.

"A man in uniform threw hand grenade to a checkpoint in Qush Tapa district today morning killing four security personnel on the spot, prompting six others to run away but militants waiting at nearby opened fire and killed all the running six soldiers," deputy to Jauzjan provincial police chief, Abdul Hafiz Khashi told Xinhua.

Blaming the enemies of peace for the attack, Khashi said that operations are underway to identify and bring to justice those behind the brutal murder.

Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor in his message on the advent of Muslims largest annual religious festival the Eidul Adha, released on Tuesday vowed to continue the war till the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the war-strife Afghanistan. Endi