One policeman was killed and two others were wounded in a bomb attack in the southern Afghanistan province of Uruzgan Thursday, police said.
The blast took place after a police vehicle travelling along a road in Mehar Abad locality of provincial capital Tirin Khot was struck by a bomb planted by the roadside, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Islam Kochai told Xinhua news agency.
The injured were shifted to a hospital, he said, blaming the Taliban insurgent group for triggering the blast which occurred at around 3.30 p.m.
The police Ranger vehicle was also destroyed in the explosion, he added.
The Taliban have intensified attacks over the past couple of months as the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) assumed full security charges from NATO-led troops after a four-year security transition.
Earlier on the day, two militants were seriously wounded after a bomb they were planting in Kunduz city, the provincial capital of northern Kunduz province went off accidentally, according to provincial police spokesman Sayyed Sarwar Hussainee.
On Jan 1 this year, the US and NATO-led troops switched from combat to support role — NATO-led Resolute Support Mission — which will focus on training, advising and assisting Afghan forces, and nearly 13,000 foreign forces will be involved in the mission, according to NATO officials.
(IANS)