KABUL - Taleban militants ambushed a patrolling police vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two policemen and losing one of their own fighters, an official and the group said. Four rebels were also wounded in the fighting in Shajoy district of insurgency-hit Zabul province, provincial police chief Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhil said. “We lost two policemen in this morning’s fighting. We killed one Taleban too,” he told AFP.A purported spokesman for the Taleban, Yousuf Ahmadi, said the movement had carried out the attack and admitted one of its fighters was killed. “We ambushed the police. We killed several of them but we lost one fighter,” he said, denying that four rebels were wounded.
In another attack Monday two small bombs exploded in the centre of the eastern city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan. The blasts caused no damage or casualties, officials said, pinning them on the “enemies of Afghanistan”, a term understood to mean the Taleban and their Islamic allies.