Afghanistan: Four killed at police checkpoint in Taliban attack | World News, The Indian Express

Afghanistan: Four killed at police checkpoint in Taliban attack  | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Kabul |Published: December 5, 2018 12:24:28 pm

Afghanistan: Four killed at police checkpoint in Taliban attack 

Attahullah Khogyani, the governor's spokesman, says the TV director, known as Engineer Zelmia, was kidnapped late Tuesday. Zelmia's driver was shot and killed.

No one immediately claimed the abduction, but the Taliban and the Islamic State group are both active in Nangarhar. (File)

Afghan officials say the Taliban have attacked a police checkpoint in the western Herat province, setting off a battle in which a policeman and three civilians were killed. Police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada says six of the attackers were killed in the battle late Tuesday.