SHARAN, Afghanistan, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A district police chief was killed during a fighting with militants in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province, the local police confirmed on Monday.
"Abdul Rahim, police chief of Waza Khwa district, was martyred during clashes with armed militants in surrounding areas of the district on Sunday night," Shah Mohammad Arian, the provincial police spokesman, told Xinhua.
The clash erupted when the police chief was leading a police unit for inspection and dispatching of supplies for security checkpoints in a mountainous region in the remote district.
Rahim was the third district police chief killed in the region recently. Two district police chiefs had been killed in two separate incidents in neighboring Ghazni province earlier this week.
The Taliban-led insurgency usually gets momentum in spring and summer commonly known as the fighting season in Afghanistan. Enditem
