Taliban kill 5 Afghan troops

The Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for a truck bomb in southern Helmand province that killed at least five Afghan security force members, an Afghan official said, adding to weeks of rising violence in the country. Sunday evening's attack took place at a military centre where at least 150 members of the Afghan army and intelligence wing were stationed, according to government officials and the Taliban. An intelligence officer who survived the attack told Reuters that militants detonated a truck bomb near the facility.