KABUL – Taliban fighters attacked a police checkpoint at a southernoutskirt of Kabul city, killing three officers and wounding another three,interior ministry confirmed.
Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman for the ministry said that the attack was carriedout late Sunday in the Dogh Abad neighborhood Police District 7. He saidthat two assailants were killed and two others injured.
Rahimi cited the survivor officers that they were breaking fast when cameunder attack by six assailants two of whom managed to flee after the attack.
Another source in the interior ministry said that six officers were presentat the checkpoint: “One was guarding, two were praying and three otherswere breaking their fast,” the source said, asking not to be named.
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Images from the checkpoint went viral showing blood drop on the bread anddishes that the officers were eating.
