Drone kills 2 in afghanistan

A SUSPECTED U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan killed two people, Pakistani intelligence said Saturday, as a Taliban suicide bomber killed a police officer in the country’s south.

The drone struck near Margha, across the border from Pakistan’s Datta Khel, a town in the North Waziristan tribal area where the U.S. has carried out previous drone attacks targeting militants, the officials said.

The Pakistani officials did not elaborate and Afghan officials did not immediately comment on the strike.

The CIA typically carries out such strikes in Pakistan’s tribal region and does not comment on the attacks, which have stirred anger in Pakistan over civilian casualties.

Meanwhile, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform killed an officer and wounded three at the police headquarters in Lashkhar Gah, the capital of southern Helmand province, local police spokesman Fared Obiad said.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent to media.

Helmand provincial capital was also the scene of a Taliban suicide car bombing on Wednesday that targeted a former police chief but killed five other people.

Also Saturday, gunmen opened fire and killed the two truck drivers in eastern Khost province.