2 police officers killed in Kabul blasts

Kabul, Dec 26 (IANS) Two police officers were killed and three others injured on Saturday in separate explosions in Kabul, marking the latest in a series of bomb attacks in the Afghan capital city, the police confirmedTwo improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hit two Ranger-type police vehicles in Police District (PD) 3 and PD 6, destroying one and severely damaging the other during morning rush hour, Xinhua news agency quoted the police as saying in a statement.The third was also an IED explosion which took place outside a traffic police stall in PD 8, causing no casualties but leaving destruction.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.Saturday explosions come after a civilian and four employees of the country’s main prison, including two female doctors, were killed and two other injured in an improvised bomb explosion in PD 7 on Tuesday.On the same day, an army colonel and teacher of the Kabul military university was shot and killed by gunmen in PD 12. In a report earlier this week, the Interior Ministry on Sunday claimed that 28 civilians were killed and 47 others injured in blasts across the country from December 17-20.According to the Ministry, a total of 37 suicide attacks and 510 blasts have killed nearly 500 civilians and injured more than 1,050 others over the past three months in Afghanistan.A total of 2,117 civilians had been killed and 3,822 injured from January 1 to September 30 this year, according to a report of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released in October.–IANSksk/