Four members of the Public Protection Force were killed and one more was injured in a roadside bomb blast in the Herat-Islam Qala highway, the provincial governor Waheed Qatali said on Tuesday.
“The members of the Public Protection Force were on patrol when the blast happened,” Qatali said, adding that “the bomb was placed by the Taliban.”
He added that the killed were the security personnel of Herat-Khaf railway which has recently been inaugurated by the Afghan government and Iran.
No one has yet claimed the responsibility for the attack including the Taliban.
