Kandahar: At least eight people including three policemen and five Afghan troops were killed two different attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed three policemen in a pre-dawn attack in Kandahar city in the south of the country while five Afghan troops died in a roadside bombing in Laghman province in the east.
The blasts came as Afghan forces take increasing responsibility for the fight against Taliban insurgents as US-led NATO combat troops prepare to pull out by the end of 2014.
“Around 5:00am (0030 GMT), a suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives at a police checkpost, leaving three Afghan policemen killed and two other wounded,” the provincial governor’s spokesman, Javed Faisal, said.
The roadside bomb hit a pick-up truck carrying Afghan army soldiers, killing five and wounding one in Mehtarlam, the Laghman provincial capital, Sarhadi Zwak, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said.
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