By Xinhua,
Kabul : A roadside bombing attack on a police vehicle left three policemen and one civilian passer-by dead Tuesday morning in Logar province of eastern Afghanistan, an official said.
The police car was struck by a roadside bomb at around 7:30 a.m. local time in Charkh district, Mustafa Hussaini, provincial police chief, told Xinhua. “Taliban militants planted the bomb.”
In a related development, local people Tuesday staged a demonstration in Pul-e-Alam, the provincial capital of Logar, chanting anti-U.S. and anti-west slogans, a day after foreign troops killed a religious leader named Mullah Malik in the region.
Elsewhere, eight civilian passengers were killed as a roadside bomb struck a mini-bus in Afghanistan’s western Farah province Tuesday.
Bombing attacks are on the rise in Afghanistan, where insurgency-related conflicts and violence left 8,000 people dead last year.
Militants in bombing attacks on Afghan government and Afghan-based foreign troops frequently cause civilian casualties.