At least 30 killed in targeted attacks in Afghanistan in July
KABUL Scores of Afghans have been victimized in the Talibanled unrest as violence still lingers in the country even after a TalibanUnited States peace deal agreement was reached in February. The Taliban militant group and other insurgent factions conducted scores of targeted attacks against civilians and military and civilian officials in July, killing about 30 people and injuring 20 others. On Tuesday, MohammadaGul Mujahid, chief of Jail of southern Kandahar province, succumbed to serious injuries in a police hospital in Afghanistan’s
capital Kabul, days after he was wounded in a shooting raid in Kandahar. On July 24, a prominent politician from eastern Logar province, Mohammad Zaman Charkhi and his teenage boy were killed in a shooting in eastern Kabul. Two police officers from eastern Kapisa province were killed and a provincial police chief was wounded when gunmen spread bullets on a police vehicle in Kalakan, a district on the northern outskirts of Kabul on July 25. On July 21, Hamidullah Jan, a former government official, was shot and killed in eastern Khost province. On the same day, a staff of a local logistic company and a taxi driver who deliver items to a police station, were killed in two separate attacks in Kandahar and northern Baghlan province. Two brothers riding a motorcycle, who were national army soldiers, were shot dead by two gunmen in Qara Bagh district of Kabul on July 18. On July 15, Sheikh Abdul Haq, a local mosque praying leader, and his brother were killed in a shooting attack in eastern Parwan province. On July 14, an army soldier and his sevenyearold boy were singled out from a passenger bus and were killed on the side of LogarKhost main roadway. On the same day, a national intelligence agency officer Ahmad Farid Sakha was shot dead in MazariSharif, capital of northern Balkh province. Haroon Nasir, a senior police officer from Balkh, was killed in a shooting raid in Shakar Dara district of Kabul on July 12. One day earlier from Shakar Dara targeted attack, Mohammad Shouib, an attorney, was killed in an attack in Police District 7 of Kabul.
(Xinhua)