Afghan UN staff member killed in Afghanistan

KABUL: An Afghan official says that a female UN worker was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the city of Kandahar.

Samim Akhpolwak, representative for the common senator in Kandahar territory, said on Monday that Toorpakai Olfat, an Afghan national, was headed to the workplace from home when two shooters on a cruiser shot and killed her. 

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) affirmed Olfat's demise in an announcement and said, "The occurrence's circumstances are under scrutiny." 

No gathering has yet asserted obligation regarding the murdering. 

In the interim, Taliban radicals assaulted Afghan security strengths in different areas in Ghazni region on Monday, said Sediq Sediqqi, representative for the Afghan Interior Ministry. 

Around 6:30 am radicals assaulted police check focuses in the Giro area, and sporadic weapon fights were all the while occurring, Sediqqi said. 

Aggressors additionally assaulted the police headquarters in Ghazni city "from three unique bearings," Sediqqi said, including that Afghan armed force helicopters had been sent to the scene to bolster the police. 


Taliban representative Zabihullah Mujahid said in an announcement that the aggressor gathering had closed down the Kabul-Kandahar thruway in Ghazni region.

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