Kabul - Seven Afghan police and five Taliban fighters were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan, while two other policemen were killed and six wounded in a separate attack in the same region, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan police came under attack in Karez Bazaar area of Maiwand district of Kandahar province during a poppy eradication campaign on Monday, Sayed Agha Saqib, provincial police chief told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"The firefight lasted for hours and as a result seven policemen and five Taliban members were killed in the fighting," Saqib said, adding that two other policemen and three other Taliban members were wounded in the gun-battle.
Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousif Ahmadi, however, said that their forces attacked a group of Afghan forces while they were searching the houses in Maiwand district.
"Our Mujahideen surrounded the forces for two hours and killed 25 soldiers," Ahmadi told
