By Xinhua,
Kabul : Two Afghan policemen were killed as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan’s central-eastern Ghazni province, said the interior ministry Thursday.
“Two policemen were killed and two others were injured as a remote-controlled roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Ghazni city, the capital of Ghazni province,” the ministry said in a press release.
The police van was destroyed in the bombing.
The ministry said police discovered and defused a mine planted by militants on a road in eastern Logar’s provincial capital Pul-e-Alam Wednesday night.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in violent incidents and militancy so far this year in Afghanistan.