Taliban insurgents ambushed a police patrol in Helmand killing four policemen and injuring seven others. A roadside blast hit a vehicle transporting a tribal elder in Khost province killing the elder’s son and two others. Afghan authorities arrested two locals and a third man from Kandahar for their alleged involvement in the suicide bombing that killed two Indian engineers and wounded several others in southwestern Nimroz province. Afghan officials say they have discovered a mass grave containing at least 100 bodies, believed to be victims of a Taliban massacre in the 1990s.
