Aug 25(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0800 GMT on Thursday.
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*HERAT - Afghan security officials arrested three members of a gang which attacked an Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team in the western province of Herat, killing four and wounding dozens more in late May, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said.
The three men recruited Pakistani suicide bombers to carry out the attack, the statement said.
HELMAND - A roadside mine wounded five policemen in Marjah district of southern Helmand province on Thursday, Marjah district governor Abdul Mutalib said.
PAKTIA - A rocket in a vegetable market in Zurmat district of eastern Paktia province killed three civilians and wounded 10 more including a child on Wednesday, deputy provincial governor Abdul Rahman Mangal said.
Afghanistan's president and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) strongly condemned the attack. Nobody has claimed responsibility.
BALKH - A roadside mine killed two policemen and wounded three more in Chamtal district of northern Balkh province on Wednesday, police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. (Compiled by Kabul bureau)
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