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Paktika’s Barmal district police chief killed in Taliban attack

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SHARANA (Pajhwok): The police chief for Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province has been killed and three of his bodyguards wounded in a Taliban attack, a police statement said Wednesday.

A statement from the police headquarters received by Pajhwok Afghan News said that the Barmal district police chief, Mohammad Ayub Tandar, was on his way to Yahyakhel district when Taliban militants attacked his vehicle late on Tuesday night.

In the nighttime attack, the Barmal district police chief was killed and three of his bodyguards were wounded.

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