 Pakistani Fighters from Afghanistan's ousted Taliban militia killed two policemen and wounded a district police chief in an ambush in the south of the country, a local official said on Tuesday. Azim Jan, the police chief of Ghorak district in Kandahar province, was travelling with his bodyguards from the city of Kandahar to Ghorak on Monday evening when Taliban militants attacked his convoy, the district governor Easa Jan told Reuters. Two of the bodyguards were killed and the police chief was wounded in the ensuing firefight, Easa Jan said. "We have launched an operation to arrest the attackers and bring them to justice," he said.
Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said the militia had killed seven police in the attack and had possibly killed their commander. Two Taliban fighters were also killed, he told Reuters by satellite telephone. Another district police chief and three others were killed in the neighbouring province of Uruzgan on Saturday. |