Four police personnel killed in Afghan bomb attack: Officials

Mazar-i-Sharif, Feb 7 (AFP) A district police chief and his three bodyguards were killed today when a remote-controlled bomb ripped through a police pick-up truck in northern Afghanistan, officials said. The attack came as the men were travelling from Kishindih district in Balkh province to the capital Mazar-i-Sharif, deputy provincial police chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi told AFP. The Balkh provincial governor's spokesman Farhad Munir said that three others were wounded in the attack. Police are increasingly being targeted by Taliban insurgents as Afghan security forces take greater responsibility for security with NATO troops set to withdraw next year. Roadside bombs, either remotely-controlled or weight-detonated, are favourite weapons of the Taliban who have waged an 11-year war against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai. (AFP) KKM ASY 02072016 NNNN