3 policemen killed in Afghanistan blasts

In eastern Laghman province, three officers of Afghan National Police (ANP) were killed when a an armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Omarzai, a locality on the outskirts of provincial capital Mehtarlam city, on Sunday afternoon, a provincial source told Xinhua news agency.

In northern Kunduz province, two civilians were seriously wounded after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Qalay-i-Zal district on Sunday morning, a provincial government spokesman, Esmatullah Muradi, told Xinhua.

Militants in Afghanistan have been using home-made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to target security forces, and the lethal weapons also inflict casualties on civilians.