KABUL, Oct 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – Two police officers and a school principal were shot and killed, in increased targeted attacks in Afghanistan, authorities confirmed today (Monday).
In one incident, unknown armed men shot dead Sayyed Ziauddin, the principal of a boys’ high school, in Police District 11, near the school, in the national capital of Kabul early on Monday.
“Ziauddin was out for dinner Sunday night, and at the early morning, as he was returning home when he was shot by unknown gunmen, in the Khayr Khana neighbourhood,” a district police told Xinhua.
Elsewhere, two police officers were gunned down by unidentified armed men, in Kandahar city, capital of southern Kandahar province, this morning, provincial police spokesman, Jamal Barakzai, told Xinhua.
The police officers were on their way to the office, in Police District 8 of the city, before they came under attack, according to Barakzai.
No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the two incidents.
On Saturday, unknown gunmen shot and killed a praying leader, in northern Balkh province, while a district chief from eastern Wardak province was killed, in the western part of Kabul.– NNN-XINHUA