<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Afghanistan, a district chief has been killed in a roadside bomb blast in western Ghor province.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Provincial governor's spokesman, Abdul Hai Khateby, said that Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim was targeted in Charsada district and was on duty at the time. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Khateby blamed Taliban insurgents for the attack.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In eastern Ghazni province, Taliban fighters ambushed a police convoy, killing four policemen and wounding six others. Spokesman for the governor Arif Noori said that a police special forces commander was among the four killed in the attack early morning today.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He said six insurgents were also killed and seven others wounded in the gun battle in Waghez district. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.&nbsp;</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div class="adL" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div class="adL" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>
News On AIR | July 7, 2018 4:33 PM
Roadside bomb kills district chief in Afghanistan's western Ghor province