Afghan official: Taliban attacks kill 8 persons
Friday 12/October/2018 - 06:59 PM
Attacks by the Taliban in the north of Afghanistan
have killed eight people; four soldiers and four civilians, ABC News reported
on Friday.
Military spokesman Hanif Rezaie said that the troops
died in Kunduz province when the Taliban attacked a military outpost in the
district of Archi on Friday morning, noting that six were wounded in the
assault.
Rezaie said the civilians were killed on Thursday,
when a car bomb targeting an election campaign headquarters in Faryab province
exploded prematurely.
He said that several Taliban fighters died in both
incidents.
Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on
Oct. 20. The campaign has already been marred by violence.
