Taliban Breach Afghan Police Posts, Killing Dozens
17, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 46 Afghan police officers, including a senior general, were killed in two separate Taliban attacks on
Tuesday, officials said, highlighting the heavy cost paid by the country’s police force amid the Afghan war’s escalating violence.
General Murad, the deputy interior minister, said the attack had killed 25 police officers and five civilians, and wounded 10 police officers.
Gen. Murad Ali Murad, Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, said
that 21 police officers had been killed in the attack, including the province’s police chief, Gen. Toryalai Abdyani, and 48 others wounded.
The Afghan government has not disclosed how many police officers and soldiers have been killed this year,
but officials say the rate is the same as or higher than in 2016, when more than 6,700 members of the security forces were killed and another 12,000 were wounded.
Dadullah Qani, a member of the provincial council in Farah, said the Taliban had attacked the Shabikoh
district on Monday night, killing five police officers and overrunning the district center.
Gen. Assadullah Shirzad, the head of police in the southeastern zone, said the insurgents
had first blown up a large truck outside the police headquarters, destroying the walls.