Insider attack kills 5 Taliban militants including key commander in Afghan eastern province

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Taliban key commander Fazal Subhan known as Kaka Ji was among five killed after one of his bodyguards opened fire on friends in Khogiani district of the eastern Nangarhar province early Monday, provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal told Xinhua.

No independent sources including the Taliban militants have so far commented on the incident.

In a similar incident which occurred last week in the southern Helmand province, an Afghan policeman reportedly returned to his barrack after joining the Taliban militants and murdering 18 of them.