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Six policemen among 8 killed in Afghan attacks
KABUL: Terrorists Insurgents killed six policemen and two civilians in southern Afghanistan in a pair of attacks, including an ambush on a checkpoint after terrorists allegedly poisoned the officers manning the outpost, authorities said on Tuesday.
The Helmand province governors office said in a statement that terrorists insurgents poisoned the food at a checkpoint in the Nahri Sarraj district and then attacked the police there late on Monday. Four policemen were killed and two were wounded in the attack. The bodies of two civilians also were found at the checkpoint. The governors office did not say whether the dead were killed by poisoning or in the fighting.
Helmand police chief Ahmad Nabi Elham said, Three police are missing, along with a vehicle and some weapons. We dont know if the three missing are involved in the poisoning or if the militants have taken them away. The investigation is underway.
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Police at the scene later clashed with terrorists insurgents, leaving two terrorists dead, he said.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yausaf Ahmadi rejected the governments account of the clashes, saying Taliban terrorists fighters attacked the checkpoint and seized weapons and a vehicle but didnt poison the police. The Taliban terrorists said they had killed 10 police in an attack on a post in the district. The way they were fighting, it looked like they might have been on drugs. Thats why the police are claiming that we terrorists poisoned them, he said. We didnt.
In neighbouring Kandahar province, two Afghan policemen were killed on Tuesday morning when their vehicle ran over a roadside bomb in Shah Wali Kot district, provincial police chief General Abdul Razaq said.
Posted by: Steve White 2012-04-04 |
