KANDAHAR: Ten Taliban were killed in fresh fighting in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday, taking the rebel death toll to around 100 since a major new military operation was made public three days ago. Seven died in the southern province of Kandahar in the hours-long gunfight that erupted after rebels stormed a district government office at midnight. Afterwards, "the Taliban fled, leaving the seven bodies at the site," Interior Ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said. "One police was also martyred and one was wounded in the several hours' fighting." Three more Taliban were killed in neighbouring Helmand province late on Friday when a bomb they were planting in a road exploded, provincial spokesman Muhaidin Khan said.