The local police commander, Bawar Khan, was also killed.
Locals said the area where the tournament took place had been under Taliban control until recently and that the Afghan security forces who wrested it back were poorly equipped and faced daily attacks and skirmishes.
The picture is similar elsewhere in Afghanistan where security forces remain too weak to tame the aggressive Taliban insurgency, a worry for the departing U.S.-led forces who have poured billions of dollars into training the Afghan army.
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