One dead in Afghanistan ‘suicide bomb’, Taleban kill four police

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KABUL - A suspected suicide bomb rocked a city in eastern Afghanistan, while an ambush by Taleban militants in the west of the country left four policemen dead, officials said on Wednesday.

The blast ripped through a Toyota taxi parked outside the governor’s office in Jalalabad early Wednesday, leaving a man who was in the vehicle “in pieces”, said Abdul Rehman, the police chief of Nangarhar province.

The Taleban attack on the border police happened on Tuesday in the western province of Farah, which is normally relatively free of violence by the ousted fundamentalist militia. snip

There has been a recent rise in violence linked to Taleban against Afghan police and soldiers, US-led troops and foreigners, coinciding with the end of Afghanistan’s harshest winter in a decade.

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