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KABUL – Police say six people, including a district chief, have been killed in a militant ambush in western Afghanistan.
Regional police spokesman Raouf Ahmedi says gunmen opened fire from several directions at a convoy traveling near the Chishti Sharif district in Herat province.
He says the district chief was killed Sunday along with the local director of criminal investigation, another employee, a bodyguard and two policemen.
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