Samiullah Popal, the acting police chief of Khogyani district in the central province of Ghazni, was killed in aTaliban attack on Thursday night, the provincial police said in a statement on Friday. 

Two security force members were killed in the attack which started when a group of Taliban fighters stormedpolice headquarters in the district, the statement said.

The statement said that four Taliban fighters also were killed in fire exchange between security forces and the militant group and five security force members sustained injuries. 

In a separate incident, at least 10 Taliban fighters were killed in Afghan Special Forces operation in Qarabagh district of Ghazni on Thursday evening, the statement added.