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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Taliban kill 7 Afghan prisoners |
| 2005-06-15 |
| SUSPECTED Taliban militants killed a doctor and six medical attendants during a spate of violent incidents in southern Afghanistan that left a total of 17 people dead, officials said. The seven medics were shot dead in Moghgay Tana, close to the Pakistani border in Khost province, police say. "Doctor Abdul Hanan and his six colleagues were killed by armed men in Moghulgay clinic," said General Almat Gull Mangal, commander of Khost border forces. "It is the work of Taliban and Al-Qaeda to kill doctors," he added. In a separate incident in the Sabari district of Khost, a civilian station wagon hit a newly planted landmine, killing two people. "A vehicle ran over a landmine and two passengers were killed as a result," said Mangal. The same day in neighbouring Paktia province, a police chief was attacked and his bodyguard killed by a bomb. "The Jani Khalil district police chief was wounded with his driver and a bodyguard. His second bodyguard died when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle," Mangal said. On the same day, four US soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their Humvee vehicle in the southeastern province of Ghazni. A day earlier a suicide car bomb packed with explosives rammed a US military convoy near Kandahar city, wounding another four American troops. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 That should be "medics," not prisoners. |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-06-15 16:57 |