Afghan officials say Taliban insurgents launched coordinated attacks against a district headquarter in southern Kandahar province and killed eight employees of the Independent Election Commission.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents killed eight election officials in a bomb attack in the southern Kandahar province, Afghan officials said on Sunday.
Aziz Ibrahimi, a spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, said that the employees were in the district of Maruf conducting voter registration, when Saturday night’s attack occurred. A defense ministry spokesman, Fawad Aman, said Taliban detonated four stolen Humvees full of explosives outside the district’s police headquarters, where the election officials were staying.The Interior Ministry said in a statement that security forces killed 25 Taliban fighters when repelling the assault.
Taliban have stepped up their attacks against Afghan security forces as the seventh round of peace talks between the U.S. and the insurgents is underway in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar.
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