[Dawn] A roadside kaboom blast killed two coppers in Herat...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province of western Afghanistan, just hours before a ceremony to hand a nearby police training academy over from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
to Afghan control, Afghan authorities said.
Raouf Ahmedi, a front man for the Afghan police commander for the western region, said one of the coppers killed in Saturday's kaboom was a teacher at the academy in Adraskan district.
He said two other coppers were maimed by the remote-controlled bomb that went
kaboom!as their vehicle passed.
Last week, a bomb in a parked cycle of violence went
kaboom!outside the training centre, killing two security guards.