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News ID: 60665
Publish Date : 11 December 2018 - 21:16

Four Killed as Afghan Intelligence Staffers Come Under Attack


KABUL (Dispatches) – An attack targeting members of Afghanistan's main intelligence agency just outside the capital Kabul on Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded six others, a senior security official said.

The official said it was an attack on an operational team from the National Directorate for Security, but he gave no further details.
Six more were wounded after the attacker detonated an explosive load in the Paghman district in western Kabul, which hit a convoy of Afghan forces with the National Directorate for Security (NDS).
"It is still not clear whether the attacker was on foot or driving a vehicle,” the spokesman said.
Another security official requesting anonymity said the assailant had used a car bomb to target the convoy.
No group has claimed responsibility for the assault.
The early morning attack in Kabul came just hours after an overnight assault on a checkpoint in Arghistan District of the southern province of Kandahar by the Taliban that killed at least eight Afghan police officers, according to the provincial media office.
"The fighting lasted several hours, eleven Taliban were also killed,” the office added.
Afghan security personnel have suffered numerous casualties in attacks both by the local Taliban militant group and the Daesh terror group.