- Sputnik International
Asia
Find top stories and features from Asia and the Pacific region. Keep updated on major political stories and analyses from Asia and the Pacific. All you want to know about China, Japan, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Suicide Bombing Kills 20 Police Officers in Afghanistan

© AFP 2023 / SHAH MaraiAfghan security personnel inspect the scene of a suicide attack on a European Union police vehicle along the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Kabul on January 5, 2015
Afghan security personnel inspect the scene of a suicide attack on a European Union police vehicle along the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Kabul on January 5, 2015 - Sputnik International
Subscribe
At least 20 police officers have been left dead and eight more were wounded in a suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Taliban Leader Mullah Omar has not been removed from the US State Department's Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program - Sputnik International
Asia
Reward for Taliban Leader in Force Despite New US Mission in Afghanistan
A suicide bomb attack on a police station in eastern Afghanistan has taken the lives of at least twenty police officers and left eight others injured, sources said.

Earlier, it was reported that 11 policemen had been killed in the bombing.

The attack took place on Tuesday in Logar province, east of the capital Kabul, according to provincial spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh.

He said that the attack was carried out by four suicide bombers, who managed to enter the compound wearing police uniforms and using a police vehicle.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the Taliban has been blamed for similar attacks in the past.

At least six police officers were killed and eight more were injured in two separate assaults in southern Afghanistan earlier this month.

The surge in Taliban attacks has increased significantly since the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan in late 2014.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала