Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan Rams Car at Militia Base, Officials Say
In northern Afghanistan, fighting between different factions of a police force relented at least temporarily on Tuesday, after the arrest of
a police commander accused of killing the son of another, according to Karim Yurush, the spokesman for the Faryab provincial police force.
By MUJIB MASHAL and TAIMOOR SHAHMARCH 21, 2017
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — At least four and possibly as many as 14 members of a militia belonging to the Afghan intelligence agency
were killed in a suicide car bombing at their base in the southern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said on Tuesday.
Qaisari said that I don’t know what kind of government is this; a high-ranking police commander is murdering a university student
and then he is resting in Governor Atta’s guesthouse,
Mr. Yurush said that Ahmad Shah Malang, who leads the Faryab police’s antiterrorism department, had been arrested by Afghan National Army soldiers
and taken to Mazar-i-Sharif and was to be transferred to Kabul for a criminal investigation of the case.
On Sunday, three United States Army soldiers were wounded about 45 miles away,
in Washir district, when an Afghan commando guarding a tower opened fire.
Bashir Ahmad Shakir, the head of the security committee on the Helmand provincial council, said the bomber on
Monday had rammed his car, a Toyota Corolla, into the base compound on the main road leading to Lashkar Gah.
