Afghanistan’s Daesh affiliate detonated a roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province The vehicle carrying the officers struck the mine in Achin District KABUL: Afghanistan’s Daesh affiliate detonated a roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province killing five border police and wounding four others, a statement issued Friday by the insurgent group said. The vehicle carrying the officers struck the mine in Achin District on Thursday, police officer Qais Saifi told The Associated Press. Even before the Daesh issued its statement claiming responsibility, Safi had suspected the group, saying it regularly plants roadside bombs to target Afghan officials and security forces. Daesh has a strong presence in Nangarhar, where Afghan and US support troops have targeted their outposts. Known as the Daesh in Khorasan province, an ancient name for large swaths of Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia, the insurgent group has carried out a number of blistering attacks in recent months in Afghanistan. It was a Daesh bomber who walked into the middle of a group of high school students earlier this month while they took their university entrance exam in the capital Kabul, killing 34. The dead were all under 20 years old and mostly Shiite Muslims. The Daesh affiliate has warned Afghanistan’s minority Shiites that they are targets. The radical Daesh views Shiites as apostates. According to the Daesh statement, an explosive device was detonated and a police Humvee was destroyed. It said another explosive device was detonated among those troops who came to the scene killing five of them, including a squadron leader, and wounding five others. Afghan officials reported only one explosion. The statement also said Daesh soldiers killed a pro-government militia leader in Achin. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a van hit a roadside mine in northeaster Kunar province, killing three people and wounding 16 others Wednesday, said Abdul Ghani Musamim, spokesman for the provincial governor. After four decades of relentless war Afghanistan is one of the world’s heaviest mined countries.