By Xinhua,
Kabul : Four persons including a police officer were injured as a roadside bomb struck their car in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province Saturday, a local official said.
“It was 8:00 a.m. (0430 GMT) when a mine planted by militants hit a vehicle in Garbaz district, wounding four persons including the police chief of the district,” district governor Mohammad Akbar Zadran told Xinhua.
However, he did not say if the three others were police or civilians.
A similar incident on police in Wazi district of the neighboring Paktia province left one police and his driver dead on Friday, a local official Deen Mohammad Darvish said.
Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have left over 400 people dead so far this year in war-torn Afghanistan, where Taliban militants recently have vowed to launch the “Spring offensive” to intensify their guerrilla-style attacks on national army and foreign troops.