FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, April 18
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:55 GMT
April 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1300 GMT on Monday.
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KABUL - A suicide attacker entered the Afghan Defence Ministry in Kabul, shot dead two Afghan soldiers and wounded seven others, Defense Ministry spokesman Zaher Azimy said.
He said the bomber was shot dead before he could set off the explosives attached to his body.
* FARAH - Thirteen Iranians and two Afghans were abducted by Taliban insurgents in Pushte Rod district of western Farah province on Sunday, deputy provincial governor Mohammad Younus Rasooli told Reuters.
The group were working on a 125 km (78 miles) road between Farah and neighbouring Iran when they were kidnapped, Rasooli said. Three of the Iranians were engineers.
PARWAN - Three people were killed and at least 25 others wounded when a protest over the detention of a cleric by foreign troops turned violent in normally-peaceful northern Parwan province, the governor Baseer Salangi said.
Sher Ahmad Maladani, provincial police chief of Parwan, said the mob destroyed several shops and used guns during the demonstration.
GHAZNI - A powerful landmine exploded under a police vehicle, killing six officers and seriously wounding two more in Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul on Monday, provincial police chief Delawar Zahed said.
Zahid said the mine had not been planted by insurgents, but was left over from previous conflicts in war-torn Afghanistan. (Compiled by Hamid Shalizi)
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