10 Die in Violence, Including 4 Militants
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Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban militants killed three Afghan police officers in an attack on their headquarters in the town of Bakwa in western Farah province, police said.
Authorities killed four suspected suicide bombers on two motorbikes loaded with explosives in another incident in the province. A boy bystander also died when one of the bikes exploded.
In the town of Charsada in western Ghor province, two Afghans working for an international aid group were gunned down after delivering medicine.
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