Kabul: Attackers killed five people at a police station in Herat, Afghanistan, on Saturday evening, Herat police Chief Aminullah Amarkhel told CNN on Sunday.
The victims were three policemen and two civilians, according to the regional hospital in Herat, in the far west of the country. Herat provincial spokesman Jelany Farhad confirmed that one of the civilians killed was a child. Four other people were wounded in the attack and brought to the hospital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The Herat police chief said security forces killed one of the attackers and were searching for two others. (IANS)
