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Nine police, 5 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan attacks

Posted : Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:45:01 GMT
By : DPA
Category : Asia (World)
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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

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