KABUL
Ten policemen were killed in suicide bomb attacks by Taliban militants in Kabul and Afghanistan provinces on Monday, Agfhan authorities said.
One commander and three police academy instructors were killed in a suicide bomber attack.
One civilian was also killed in the incident, and ten others including some civilians were injured, Afghan authorities said.
Another suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of police headquarter in Logar province, some 75 kilometers south of Kabul on Monday. At least six Afghan Local police, and one civilian were killed and four others were injured, provincial governor spokesman Din Mohammad Darwish told the Anadolu Agency.
In separate incident, a suicide bomber riding a motorbike crashed into a car with Afghan police academy instructors, killing four of them and wounding three others on Monday morning in Jalalabad, about 128 kilometers (80 miles) east of Kabul.
“The attack took place when the policemen were heading to their holy duty. Investigations are underway to determine whether it was caused by a suicide attack or by explosives planted in the motorbike,” provincial police spokesman Hazrat Husssain Mashriqiwal told the agency.
At least three civilians were injured when a remote-controlled bomb went off near a convoy of Afghan Rapid Reaction Forces in front of police academy in Kabul on Monday morning.
On Sunday, a high-ranking security official was also killed, but the Kabul police chief escaped unhurt after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the police chief's office in Kabul.
Ministry of interior spokesman Sediq Sediqi confirming the blast said that Afghan forces had escaped unhurt.
Taliban militants used Twitter to take responsibility for the attacks.
Taliban militants have intensified their activities since the Afghan government security agreements with the United States and NATO were signed. U.S. combat forces are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of the year.
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