Taliban insurgents have eliminated a senior intelligence officer and three of his family members in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, provincial police chief Abdul Jalal Jalal said Tuesday.
"Armed Taliban militants entered the house of Sharifullah, a senior officer of National Security Directorate, in Kunar province Monday night and killed him along with his wife and two sons," Jalal told Xinhua.
The bloody incident took place in Khas Kunar district, he added.
Taliban insurgents, who often target government interests and "soft targets" such as teachers and aid workers, have yet to make any comments.
Abdullah Wardak, the governor of Logar province, was killed by roadside bombing planted by Taliban insurgents outside Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday.
Spiraling insurgency and Taliban-linked violence, according to officials, have left around 4,000 people dead with over 700 police so far this year in war-battered Afghanistan.
Source: Xinhua
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