Sixteen people including civilians and policemen have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the police said. Seven Taliban fighters were also killed after ambushing a police convoy in western Afghanistan, provincial police said.
Two civilians were killed and two wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in the Kh-akrez district of the southern province of Kandahar, Zalmai Ayobi, spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP. On Monday, six policemen were killed by a roadside bomb that ripped through their pickup truck in the Bala Buluk district of the western province of Fa-rah, said local police spo-kesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi. A bomb blast also hit a motorcycle in Bala Buluk the same day, killing two civilians, he said. Elsewhere in Farah province, seven Taliban militants including a local commander, were killed, three wounded and two arrested after they ambushed a police convoy on Monday, provincial police chief Mohammed Faqir Askar said.
In the southern province of Zabul, insurgents attacked a security company vehicle in the Shahr-e-Safa district on Monday, killing six security guards and wounding five, a provincial spokesman said.
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Monk jailed for filming nude women
Phnom Penh, Jun 29: A Cambodian court charged a Buddhist monk on Tuesday for secretly filming hundreds of women as they bathed naked with holy water at a temple and then sharing the clips, officials said. Net Khai, 37, faces up to a year in jail after being charged with “producing and distributing pornographic images” by Phnom Penh municipal court, prosecutor Ek Chheng Huot told AFP.
He was arrested at his pagoda in the Cambodian capital on Saturday over allegations that he secretly taped the women pouring sacred water over themselves in a pagoda bathroom, said police chief Touch Naruth.
Net Khai was arrested after a victim approached the police and said that video clips showing the naked women had been shared among people via their mobile phones in recent weeks. He was subsequently stripped of his religious status. “He has filmed hundreds of women since 2008. They came to the monk to be blessed with holy water, but they were secretly filmed,” Touch Naruth told AFP.
“His act affects other monks and Buddhism and seriously harms our tradition,” he said. —AFP