Kabul: At least five people including an Afghan police officer who was targeted by Taliban militants and survived 16 bomb attacks was killed by an improvised explosive device, media reported on Sunday.
According to reports Tor Jan, the leader of a police post in the southern province of Uruzgan, a hotbed of the insurgency against the Kabul government and its Western allies, was renowned for leading attacks against the Taliban.
Jan had survived 16 explosions, most of them aimed at him personally, but was killed when his vehicle was hit by a blast in Tirin Kot district where he was based, Uruzgan police spokesman Farid Ail told AFP.
“He was very active against the Taliban. The Taliban considered him an enemy,” he said, describing Jan as a “brave officer”.
“He had survived 16 such attacks. Today in the 17th attack he was martyred.”
It is to be mentioned here that improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are the weapon of choice for Taliban insurgents in the long-running conflict which caused bulk of military casualties among both Afghan security personnel and the US-led NATO force.
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