Kabul, Afghanistan - Kabul's police chief resigned on Sunday, a police spokesman said, after the Afghan capital was hit by at least nine militant attacks in the last two weeks.
“General Zahir Zahir told the interior ministry he no longer wanted to continue his job. The minister has accepted his resignation,” the spokesman Hashmat Stanakzai told AFP.
The Associated Press on Sunday reported that three South African nationals and one Afghan were killed in an attack on a guesthouse in the capital Kabul.
The chief of Kabul police, Gen Mohammed Zahir, said that the head of an international aid group was killed, along with his son and daughter, on Saturday.
He gave no ages for the children, and did not identify the organisation.
Zahir said one of the three attackers wore a police uniform.
The attack was the second in as many days on guesthouses occupied by foreigners, and comes amid a spike in violence in the Afghan capital.
The US and NATO formally end their 13-year combat mission in Afghanistan on December 31.
Sapa-AFP