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| Five policemen, eight Taleban killed in southern Afghanistan |
| 2006-05-19 |
| KABUL - Five Afghan policemen and eight armed Taleban were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan’s southern province of Ghazni, senior officials said on Friday. Shir Alam Ibrahimi, the provincial governor of Ghazni, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur the members of the ousted Taleban late Thursday afternoon ambushed three vehicles in Nanai district of the province and killed three policemen. Later in the evening, another clash broke between the Taleban and Afghan police in Waghaz district of the province and resulted the killing of eight Taleban and two police. ”Nine other policemen were injured,” Ibrahimi said, adding that one Taleban fighter was also arrested. In the past three days, at least 95 people, including a Canadian, an American, several Afghan police and dozens of Taleban have been killed in fierce fighting in the southern provinces of Kandahar, Helmand and Ghazni. About 19,000 US-led troops in Afghanistan are hunting the remnants of the ousted Taleban regime and their allies from the al-Qaeda terrorist network, mainly in the south and south-eastern regions of the war-torn country. |
| Posted by:Steve |