Suicide bomber targets Afghan police vehicle in Helmand, officer killed

  26 December 2016    Read: 1535
Suicide bomber targets Afghan police vehicle in Helmand, officer killed
A suicide car bomber targeted Afghan officials traveling in a police Humvee in Lashkargah city, the Helmand province, early Monday.
Early reports said at least one police officer was killed and a number of others were injured, TOLO News reports.

The officials had been on their way to launch an operation to reopen the Kandahar-Lashkargah highway, according to the provincial governor’s spokesman Omar Zwak. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

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