Militants kill four Afghan police brothers

Police launched a hunt for the militants to rescue the father of those “brave brothers,” the statement said. The ministry blamed the attack on the “opposition,” a reference to Taliban and other insurgents trying to destabilise the government.

In Khost province on the border with Pakistan a remote-controlled bomb exploded underneath a pick-up truck and killed four people, including a woman and a child, Colonel Muhammad Yaqoub Mondozai said.

Three more people were wounded, the deputy provincial police chief said.

In the capital Kabul meanwhile a suicide bomber blew himself up near the landmark and ancient Babur’s Gardens early Tuesday, wounding five civilians, the Interior Ministry said.