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6 Afghan policemen killed in Taliban attack
[DAWN] The Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attacked three checkpoints in the western Farah province of Afghanistan, killing at least six coppers, an Afghan official said on Sunday. Mohammad Naser Mehri, a front man for the provincial governor, said eight other coppers were maimed in the late Saturday attack. He claimed eight snuffies were killed and at least five others were maimed in the battle. The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, seven hard boyz were killed and two others maimed when a bomb went kaboom!prematurely in the northern Kunduz province. Mahbobullah Sayedi, a district chief, said the fighters died while trying to plant the bomb on a road used by Afghan cops. Dozens of Afghan police and soldiers have been killed in a wave of Taliban attacks on checkpoints in Afghanistan, officials had said on Tuesday, as snuffies step up assaults on the beleaguered security forces. Posted by: Fred 2017-11-20 |
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