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Eleven Afghan Police Killed in ‘Insider Attack’
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban rubbed out 11 of his colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , officials said Tuesday, in the latest so-called "insider attack". The incident occurred late Monday while the coppers were sleeping in their barracks in the lovely provincial capital Lashkar Gah, as the Taliban escalate a deadly winter campaign of violence. Bloodied corpses of the coppers were strewn around the checkpoint, many of them shot from close range, witnesses said, in a setback for Afghan forces before what is expected to be another fierce spring fighting season. "A policeman affiliated to the Taliban shot 11 of his colleagues, killing all of them," a provincial official told AFP, declining to be named. "He then fled the area, taking all the ammunition and firearms with him," he said, adding that police had launched a search for the Taliban infiltrator. The Boost government hospital in Lashkar Gah had received the bodies of the 11 coppers, a health official told AFP. Taliban holy warriors, who control vast swathes of the opium-ravaged province, grabbed credit for the killings. Posted by: Fred 2017-03-01 |
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