Driver of high-ranking official killed in Kabul in targeted attack

One person was killed and another was wounded in an armed attack on a vehicle carrying security guards of the deputy head of the Senate’s secretariat in Kabul on Saturday evening, police said.

According to police the incident happened in PD5 Qala-e-Kashif area in Kabul. Gunmen opened fire on the vehicle, killing the driver and wounding a security guard.

The attack was followed by a gunfight between police and the attackers in which one two people including one gunman was wounded.

So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

This comes after gunmen assassinated a doctor in Kabul on Friday.

Sources told Ariana News that the incident took place in the Karte Sakhi area of Kabul and that the gunmen managed to escape.