FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan, June 8
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 7:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday:
KHOST - Taliban insurgents killed the governor of the Qalandar district of Khost province in an ambush in the east of Afghanistan on Sunday and wounded two others, a police official said.
GHAZNI - A roadside bomb killed four Afghan police and wounded six more in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul on Sunday, the district governor said. Police killed three Taliban insurgents in the ensuing fighting.
KUNAR - Taliban insurgents killed an Afghan police officer in an attack on a checkpoint in the northeastern province of Kunar early on Sunday, the provincial police chief said.
KUNDUZ - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle wounded three Afghan civilians in an attack aimed at either foreign or Afghan security forces in the Chahar Dara district of the northern province of Kunduz, a security official said.
(Compiled by Jon Hemming; Editing by Alison Williams)
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