The governor of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, some 315 km northeast of capital city Kabul, escaped Taliban attack but his guard was injured on Monday.
"The governor, Dr. Shah Waliullah Adeeb, was visiting Wardoj district when Taliban insurgents ambushed his entourage at around 11 a.m. local time today. As a result, one policeman was injured," spokesman for Badakhshan provincial administration, Abdul Marouf Rasikh, told Xinhua.
In the gun battle, following the attack, which lasted more than an hour, an insurgent was killed and another sustained injuries and another one was captured, Rasikh said.
Taliban militants fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops have yet to make comment.
The Taliban-led insurgency has claimed the lives of several officials, including the governor and police chief of Kunduz province, and badly injured the governor of Takhar province and killed Takhar police chief over the past couple of months.
English.news.cn 2011-06-20 17:47:42 FeedbackPrintRSS
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, June 20 (Xinhua)
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