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Afghan district police chief assassinated: official

Xinhua, March 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

A district police chief was killed following an ambush attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan on Tuesday, the provincial governor said.

"The enemies of Afghanistan attacked the vehicle of, Enayatullah Khan, police chief of Duab district, with guns along a main road in the district located in southwestern of provincial capital Parun early Tuesday morning. As a result Khan was martyred and two policemen were wounded," governor Haffiz Abdul Qaum told Xinhua.

He blamed the Taliban militant group for the attack in the mountainous province.

The Taliban militants, which ruled the country before they were ousted in late 2001, renewed armed insurgency, staging ambushes and suicide attacks, killing combatants as well as civilians.

On Monday, a policewoman was shot dead by gunmen in the country's southern province of Kandahar. Enditem