Four police officers shot dead in northwest Afghanistan
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Afghan security personnel stand guard near the site of an attack at the entrance to a police base in Kabul, Afghanistan, on February 1, 2016. AFP
At least four police officers have lost their lives when nine men clad in an Afghan police uniform opened fire on them in the country’s Northwestern Province of Badghis, security officials in Afghanistan say.
Colonel Mohammad Saber, a local police official, said the incident took place at a police checkpoint in the Qadis district of the province on Tuesday, when the gunmen fatally shot the policemen.
Saber added that the armed man later stole the slain officers’ weapons before fleeing to join the Taliban militant group.
On January 26, ten policemen were killed after a man wearing an Afghan police uniform shot them in the Chinartoo district of the beleaguered Central Province of Uruzgan.
Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid later claimed responsibility for the act of violence, saying that nine policemen were killed after his fellow militants overran the police outpost in Chinartoo.
A week earlier, nine policemen were shot dead in the same Afghan province by at least four men disguised in police uniform. Local officials said the Taliban infiltrator then stole their weapons and fled the scene.
Meanwhile, Afghan army troopers backed by security forces killed more than 30 Taliban militants and wounded several others in a series of clean-up operations across the strife-torn country.
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