Afghanistan: Taliban kills 71 people in attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's deputy interior minister says the Taliban have killed 71 people in attacks in Ghazni and Paktia province.

The official, Murad Ali Murad, told a press conference in Kabul that the attacks on Tuesday were the "biggest terrorist attack this year."

He says in one of the attacks, in southern Paktia province, 41 people—21 policemen and 20 civilians—were killed when the Taliban targeted a police compound in the provincial capital of Gardez with two suicide car bombs. Scores were also wounded—48 policemen and 110 civilians.

The provincial police chief was among those killed in the Paktia attack.