An Afghan policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues in a northern province, killing eight, while a gunman in the country’s east fatally shot a cleric and his wife, officials said
The policemen were killed while they were sleeping in an outpost in the district of Almar in northern Faryab province, according to provincial police spokesman Abdul Karim Yuresh.
The attack happened Thursday night, and according to the spokesman, a policeman who was on duty opened fire and killed his colleagues, then collected their firearms and fled the scene—presumably to join the Taliban.