Kandahar: A suicide bomber hit a police compound in southwestern Afghanistan, killing two officers and wounding five others, an official said.

The bomber tried to ram a vehicle packed with explosives yesterday inside a police chief's compound in the town of Zaranj in Nimroz province, said provincial deputy police chief Asadullah Sherzad.

The vehicle exploded at the compound walls, killing two policemen and wounding five others, Sherzad said. The bomber also died. In neighboring Helmand province, meanwhile, police arrested a senior Taliban commander who has escaped twice from prisons in Afghanistan.

The officers nabbed Mullah Naqibullah during a clash that left three insurgents dead on Monday, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal.

Naqibullah was with a group of militants dressed in police uniforms who ambushed a police convoy north of the province's capital of Lashkar Gah, Andiwal said.

The ensuing gunbattle left three militants dead, and wounded two policemen and Naqibullah, who was taken into custody, Andiwal said.

Source : PTI