KABUL - Taleban insurgents ambushed and killed 10 Afghan employees of a private security company in the south of the country on Monday, the interior ministry said. Three other staff of the company were wounded in the ambush, which happened before dawn on a highway in the southern province of Zabul, the interior ministry said in a statement. The insurgents fled after the ambush, it added.A provincial official said the victims worked for a US private security company.
Before the ambush, Taleban guerrillas overran a district in the northwestern province of Badghis, killing at least three police, a provincial official said. Three policemen were also killed in a clash with militants in Ghazni town to the southwest of Kabul, witnesses said.
And late the previous night, Taleban insurgents stormed a police post in the southwestern province of Nimroz, killing five police and abducting four others, a provincial official said.