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Insider attack against police and two blasts have claimed three lives and injured 10 others in Afghan restive southern provinces since Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday.
In the bloody offensive presumably conducted by Taliban penetrated person in Taliban former stronghold Uruzgan province with Trinkot as its capital, some 370 km south of the national capital Kabul city Tuesday night, three police were killed and five others injured, provincial government spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab said Wednesday.
"The gruesome incident happened in Dehrawad district last night and the attacker after committing the heinous crime and murdering three colleagues and injuring five others made his good escape," Nayab told Xinhua.
Efforts are underway to arrest and bring to justice the culprits behind the bloody murder, the official added.
Meantime, Taliban purported spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, in talks with media from unknown location, claimed of responsibility, insisting a Taliban insurgent infiltrated into police rank carried out the attack.
Hours later, two persons including a senior police officer, were injured in the same province Uruzgan in a bomb blast on Wednesday morning. "A bomb planted by militants on a road outside provincial capital Trinkot to target security personnel was discovered by police and bomb disposal wanted to defuse it but the device exploded, injuring two police personnel including commander of Civil Order Police in the province, Sayed Jan Ziarkakh," Nayab told reporters.
In a similar incident occurred in the neighboring Ghazni province with Ghazni city as its capital, some 125 km south of national capital Kabul city, three civilians were injured on Wednesday, spokesman for provincial government Shafiq Nang said. "A bomb planted alongside a road in Ghazni's provincial capital the Ghazni city went off at around 10:00 a.m. local time, injuring three passersby including a man and a woman," Nang told Xinhua. Enditem
