Taliban fighters have killed the chief of police in the town of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, the governor’s press secretary said on Thursday.
Two armed men attacked police chief Mardja Khadji Nur Aliand his son as they returned home late on Wednesday evening from a mosque.
The Taliban also attacked the home of the provincial police chief in Logar Province early on Thursday, press secretary Din Mohamed Dervish said.
The regional head of the people’s national council, Abdul Wali Wakhil, was in the house during the attack, Dervish said.
“The attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the house and a gun battle broke out with the security guards,” a source said.
The gunfight went on for at least a half an hour, after which the attackers withdrew, Dervish said.
The Afghan officials were not hurt in the attack, but the Logar Province police chief’s home was badly damaged, he said.
The attack follows the killing on Wednesday of the mayor of Kandahar in his home.
