Kabul’s police chief resigned on Sunday, a police spokesman said, after the Afghan capital was hit by at least nine militant attacks in the last two weeks.

Kabul's police chief resigned on Sunday, a police spokesman said, after the Afghan capital was hit by at least nine militant attacks in the last two weeks.

"General Zahir Zahir told the interior ministry he no longer wanted to continue his job. The minister has accepted his resignation," spokesman Hashmat Stanakzai told AFP.

The latest Taliban strike in Kabul killed a South African father running an education charity and his two teenage children, officials said Sunday.