The incident occurred at a police checkpoint in Qalat, capital of Zabul province, as the Taliban ramp up their annual spring offensive launched last month against Western-backed Afghan forces.
“Around 3:00 am today a policemen opened fire on his colleagues in Zabul, killing eight of them,” Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief of Zabul, told AFP. “The attacker fled to the Taliban, with a stolen truck and weapons.”