| Suspected Taliban fighters have killed two local Afghan police chiefs in the past day in separate incidents. Khalid Pashtun, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said that Taliban militants attacked and set fire to a district police headquarters last night, killing the local police chief. In Ghazni Province, a police chief and his driver were killed today in a suspected Taliban ambush. The incidents are the latest in a wave of violence in Afghanistan tied to loyalists of the ousted Taliban regime. On 11 July, at least five people were killed in a bomb attack in the western city of Herat. Police in Herat Province today said they have detained three men suspected of masterminding the attack. In another incident, a senior Afghan commander, General Khial Baz, said a mine exploded near his car late yesterday, but he escaped uninjured. |