Kabul: Two separate attacks in Afghanistan have killed at least 18 people amid a wave of violence across the country, officials said on Saturday.
A local police chief in western Ghor, Fakhrudin, said Taliban insurgents stormed a police checkpoint late on Friday night and killed ten police officers.
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He added that one policeman was wounded and another one was still missing after the attack in the remote village in the Pasaband district.
The police official blamed the Taliban for the attack.
Meanwhile, in the eastern Khost province, unknown gunmen targeting a former warlord killed at least eight people in the province's Ali Sher district, said Adel Haider, spokesman for the provincial police chief.
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The police spokesman said that the target of the attack was among the dead — Abdul Wali Ekhlas, a candidate in last year's parliamentary elections who didn't win a seat.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks in Khost province. Violence has spiked in recent weeks in Afghanistan with most of the attacks claimed by the local Islamic State group affiliate.
AP
