Taliban Breach Afghan Police Posts, Killing Dozens<br />17, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 46 Afghan police officers, including a senior general, were killed in two separate Taliban attacks on<br />Tuesday, officials said, highlighting the heavy cost paid by the country’s police force amid the Afghan war’s escalating violence.<br />General Murad, the deputy interior minister, said the attack had killed 25 police officers and five civilians, and wounded 10 police officers.<br />Gen. Murad Ali Murad, Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, said<br />that 21 police officers had been killed in the attack, including the province’s police chief, Gen. Toryalai Abdyani, and 48 others wounded.<br />The Afghan government has not disclosed how many police officers and soldiers have been killed this year,<br />but officials say the rate is the same as or higher than in 2016, when more than 6,700 members of the security forces were killed and another 12,000 were wounded.<br />Dadullah Qani, a member of the provincial council in Farah, said the Taliban had attacked the Shabikoh<br />district on Monday night, killing five police officers and overrunning the district center.<br />Gen. Assadullah Shirzad, the head of police in the southeastern zone, said the insurgents<br />had first blown up a large truck outside the police headquarters, destroying the walls.
