Kabul: A bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s northern province of Jawzjan has left at least eight Afghan policemen dead, a police official said.
The blast took place on Thursday when the policemen’s vehicle struck a mine as they were on their way to the provincial capital Sheberghan.
“Eight of our policemen were killed at around 2 p.m. when their vehicle hit a roadside mine in Fayz Abad district,” provincial deputy police chief Mohammad Ebrahim told AFP.
Earlier in the day, a US-led airstrike killed at least 13 civilians, mostly women and children, in Dowamanda district of Khost in eastern Afghanistan.
People in Khost province took to the streets to protest civilian deaths as hundreds of civilians have been killed in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of the country over the past few months.
The loss of civilian lives at the hands of foreign forces has drastically raised anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan and worsened relations between the Afghan government and US-led foreign forces.
Law and order situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led foreign troops.
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