 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Four Afghan policemen were killed and seven others were injured when a bomb planted by suspected Taleban militants exploded near a checkpoint, an official said on Friday. The blast happened late Thursday in the Hazar Joft district of the insurgency-prone southern province of Helmand, local police commander Bahadur Khan told AFP. âFour policemen were killed, seven others were wounded,â Khan said.
A purported Taleban spokesman, Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi, called AFP from an unknown location in Pakistan and said his guerrillas had planted the remotely detonated device. âIt was our work,â said Ahmadi, who often calls the media to claim responsibility for attacks on Afghan and foreign troops on behalf of the hardline Islamic militia.
| Trace the call, pay Ahmadi a visit. |
| You'd best run that request past the New York Yimes. They get testy when they are not consulted in these matters. |
âOne of our mujahedin (holy warriors) succeeded in planting the bomb just outside the checkpost,â he added. |