NATO, local officers killed in Afghanistan

At least three security men were killed including a foreign NATO soldier and four others were wounded in violent incidents in different parts of Afghanistan in the last 24 hours, said officials. According to a NATO statement, a foreign soldier was killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, but there was no indication as to where the shooting took place, or nationality of the soldier killed. A police spokesman, Fared Ayel, said that a group of insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in the Dehrawod district killing a police official and wounding four others. At least four insurgents were also killed in the attack, he added. In southern Kandahar city, Governor Spokesman Javed Faisel said a police officer was shot and killed by two gunmen riding a motorbike. Earlier on Sunday, at least three Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers were killed and another was wounded as a bomb exploded inside a mosque in southeastern Paktika Province. Afghan forces have taken control of security across the country in June, as the foreign NATO/ISAF forces prepare to leave by end of 2014.