Afghan district attorney, prison official killed in 2 attacks
A district attorney and a prison official have been killed in two separate terror attacks in Afghanistan, officials say.
Baryalay Basharyar, deputy chief of Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab, said Hamidullah Khan, who was the prosecutor of the Shirin Tagab district near the border with Turkmenistan, lost his life after a sticky bomb attached to his car went off while he was on his way to work on Thursday.
In another incident elsewhere, an unknown gunman opened fire and killed the deputy director of the main prison in Uruzgan province on Thursday, according to Doost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for the provincial governor.
Mohammad Zai came under the shooting attack in Tirin Kot, the provincial capital, Nayeb added.
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks; however, Afghan officials often blame Taliban militants for such deadly assaults.
Afghan security forces have assumed the full security charges from the US-led Western military alliance, NATO, since January 1.
US-led NATO troops invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
The alliance officially ended its combat mission in Afghanistan on December 31, 2014, but some 13,500 foreign forces have been remained in the war-torn Asian state.
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