ghazni, Afghanistan: Six Afghan policemen were killed yesterday in a Taliban raid helped by an “insider”, officials said, in the latest such attack to hit Western-trained security forces.
The militants stormed a police post in the Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said.
“One of the policemen who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping,” district chief Fazul Ahmad Tolwak said.
He said one officer was wounded but survived. Another police officer was detained over suspected links to the attack and was being investigated, he said.
Fazul Sabawoon, a provincial spokesman, confirmed the incident and said six officers — part of the Afghan Local Police, a US-funded community force — were killed in the pre-dawn raid.
He also blamed an “insider” for the attack. More than 60 foreign soldiers were killed in 2012 in insider attacks that have bred mistrust and threatened to derail the training of Afghan forces ahead of Nato’s withdrawal next year.
Scores of Afghan forces have also died in the attacks. The threat has become so serious that foreign soldiers working with Afghan forces are regularly watched over by so-called “guardian angel” troops.
Bomb kills four Pakistani soldiers
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan: A roadside bomb targeting a military convoy yesterday killed four Pakistan soldiers and wounded four more in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.
The blast was triggered by remote control in Mirali town in North Waziristan tribal district, a notorious hub of Taliban and Al Qaeda linked militants.
“The roadside bomb planted near Khawaja Khar check post went off when a convoy left Mirali on its way to the northwestern city of Bannu,” a local security official said, adding that four soldiers died and four more were rushed to hospital.
AFP
