Afghan police kill would-be suicide bombers in the western province of Nimroz

Afghan police kill would-be suicide bombers

KABUL — Afghan officials say police have killed several would-be suicide bombers in western Afghanistan.

Zemeri Bashary, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, says police killed five bombers Wednesday before they could carry out an attack in Nimroz province.

The deputy police chief there, Musa Rasooli, said militants were targeting the provincial governor’s compound.

Nimroz province is in extreme southwestern Afghanistan along the Iranian border. Thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops conducted an offensive earlier this year to rout the Taliban from neighboring Helmand province.

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KABUL (AP) — Taliban militants have attacked an Afghan district headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.

Taliban and local officials confirmed the attack late Tuesday in Nangarhar province.

Provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said Wednesday that authorities were trying to determine the number of casualties. The Taliban said 15 police and two of its fighters were killed.

The district headquarters houses police and other officials.