KABUL, 6 April, 2021, (TON): Four members of local policemen were killed in an attack on a security outpost in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan on Monday night.  

According to the sources the attack took place in the Ghazi Baba area in Sorkh Rod district of Nangarhar.  

Local officials have not commented on the incident.   

Figures by security officials show that at least 26 members of Afghan forces were killed and 30 more, including four civilians, were wounded in separate security incidents in six provinces in the last 24 hours. 

Earlier on Sunday, 82 Talibans were killed in Afghan airstrikes in the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province. 

The incident comes amidst a sharp increase in violence in the country ahead of a key conference in Turkey that is expected to change the direction of the Afghan peace efforts. 

In February, 2020, the US signed a peace deal in the final year of Donald Trump's presidency with the Taliban and also signed a declaration with Afghanistan government to start an intra-afghan peace talks. The entirety of this agreement is the complete settlement of conflict among those parties who signed it.