KABUL: Insurgent attacks across Afghanistan have killed 11 Afghan security force members, authorities said on Sunday, as a suicide car bomb attack wounded three Nato troops.

The deadliest attacks happened overnight in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman pro­vince, when militants raided police and army checkpoints in Aliangar district, said Sarhadi Zwak spokesman for the provincial governor.

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Mr Zwak said the dead inc­luded six police officers and one soldier, while security forces killed 15 insurgents.

In the western province of Herat, insurgents attacked a police checkpoint early on Sunday morning, killing one police officer, said Raouf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.

He said officers killed four militants in the assault in Shindand district. An attack late on Friday on another checkpoint in the district killed three police officers, he said.

In eastern Nangarhar province, authorities said a suicide car bomber wounded three Nato troops in an attack on Saturday night in the Behsud district.

Nato said the attacker was killed and there were no other fatalities. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

Published in Dawn, July 14th, 2014