Afghan Official: Four Police killed in Taliban ambush

An Afghan official says Taliban fighters have killed four border police in an ambush in the southern province of Zabul.

 

 

An Afghan official says Taliban fighters have killed four border police in an ambush in the southern province of Zabul.

BismullahAfghanmal, the provincial governor of Zabul, said the police were ambushed while on a foot patrol in a mountainous area. He says several Taliban were also killed in Sunday’s clash, but had no additional details.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a police official says 30 so-called Islamic State militants have been killed in the eastern province of Nangarhar in the past 24 hours.