 (Xinhua) -- At least 25 Taliban rebels were killed on Friday by the police in the southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, an official told Xinhua. The police and some rebels exchanged fire in Chora district, killing 25 Taliban militants, said Mohammad Qasim, the provincial police chief. One policeman was also killed and another injured in the clash, he said. About 20 pieces of weapons including machine-guns were also seized by the police.
| “Militants planted a roadside bomb to attack a bus carrying the workers, then shot them with machine-guns... ” |
A local official told Xinhua on Friday that 19 Afghan construction workers were killed and three others injured in an ambush in the southern Kandahar province on Thursday. Militants planted a roadside bomb to attack a bus carrying the workers, then shot them with machine-guns in Shorawark district, about 200 km south of the provincial capital Kandahar city, said Haji Sultan Mohammad, the district's police chief. |