Two die in blast near police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar
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Afghan security force personnel stand alert at the entrance to a provincial court in Ghazni on June 1, 2016, after a group of Taliban militants targeted the building.
Two people have been killed in a bomb explosion that struck near a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s conflict-stricken eastern province of Nangarhar.
According to the reports, Deputy provincial police chief, Abass Sadat, said the blast was carried out in the provincial capital city of Jalalabad, located about 118 km east of the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday. A traffic policeman and a civilian were killed.
He added that two civilians were also wounded in the attack, and that the bomb was likely detonated by remote control.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but it bears the hallmark of those carried out by members of the Taliban militant group.
Separately, at least four police officers were killed when a rogue colleague opened fire and shot them dead in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Badghis.
The incident took place in the Jawand district of the province on Tuesday evening, when the armed man clad in Afghan police uniform turned his rifle on the officers.
A member of the provincial council, speaking on condition of anonymity, said another soldier was wounded in the attack and the assailant was killed after other soldiers responded to his gunfire.
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