Six policemen killed by militants in western Afghanistan
Militants shot dead a local police chief and five other officers in an ambush on a desert road in western Afghanistan today.
Nassar Ahmad, who had been transferred from Farah province’s Gulistan district to the nearby Khaki Safed area, was travelling in a convoy to take up his new post when insurgents attacked at about 7am (3.30am Irish time), said Gen. Sayed Aqa Sakid, the provincial police chief.
Sakid said Ahmad and five other policemen were killed and four wounded in the attack in volatile Dalaram district, about 75 miles east of Farah city, where Taliban fighters have moved into after fleeing Nato-led military operations in southern Helmand province.
