A local Taliban police official was killed Thursday morning in a bomb attack on his vehicle in Asadabad, eastern Afghanistan, a Taliban source told AFP.
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The police chief of the district of Shigal was killed and eleven people were wounded
", by an explosive device activated by the passage of his convoy, said the Taliban official who requested anonymity.
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Among the wounded treated at the Kunar regional hospital were four Taliban fighters and seven civilians, a medical source told AFP.
The attack has not been claimed at this point.
Since coming to power on August 15, the Taliban have faced a wave of bloody attacks, claimed by the Islamic State organization, their rival jihadist group since 2014.
Its local branch, the Islamic State-Khorasan (EI-K) has targeted the Taliban as well as the Afghan Shiite minority in recent weeks.
The group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque in Kunduz (northeast) on Friday, which left at least 60 dead, the deadliest attack since US troops left the country on August 30.