About 300 Taliban fighters today seized the remote Bakwa district of Afghanistan's western Farah Province, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported.
An RFE/RL correspondent in the area reports that the district administrator and the chief of police have been missing since Taliban overran their administrative headquarters at noon local time today.
Farah Province Governor Mohidin Khan says government forces were forced to abandon the district.
The attack comes one day after a roadside bomb killed four police involved in opium-poppy eradication nearby.
Bakwa is the second Afghan provincial district to be seized by Taliban fighters this month.
In nearby Helmand Province, Taliban have controlled the town of Musa Qala since they seized it on February 2.
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