KHOST, April 5: Five Taliban and two policemen were killed on Thursday in the latest violence in Afghanistan, officials said.An interpreter working with Nato-led troops was killed and his three colleagues were injured when unknown attackers fired at their vehicle outside the eastern city of Khost, provincial official Badi-ul Zaman Sabarai said.

Sabarai blamed the attack – which happened while they were on their way to work and did not involve Nato forces – on Taliban remnants who have been waging a guerrilla-style insurgency in southern and eastern Afghanistan. “The enemies attacked these innocent translators. One of them was killed and three others were injured,” he said.

A doctor in the city’s hospital said three injured men were admitted to his hospital and a body was also brought there.

Taliban rebels have threatened to kill Afghans working for the international troops who are in Afghanistan mainly under the UN-mandated Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

In the southern province of Ghazni a police official was killed and nine others were wounded in two separate attacks by Taliban, provincial police commander Alishah Ahmadzai said.—AFP