Kabul - Afghan police killed at least ten militants after they attacked their post in western province of Farah, while four other militants were killed in a separate clash in the country eastern region, officials said on Tuesday. A group of Taliban militants attacked Bakwa district of Farah province on early Tuesday morning but faced a counter-offensive by local police, Abdul Rahman Sarjang, provincial police chief told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. 'During the firefight that took place at 3:00am, more than ten Taliban fighters were killed,' Sarjang said, adding that the rest escaped the area leaving behind the dead bodies of their three comrades. He said that one police officer was also killed in the firefight.
In a separate incident, NATO-led forces killed at least four suspected Taliban militants as they were crossing the border from Pakistani soil into Paktika province late on Monday, Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar, provincial spokesman for Paktika's governor told dpa. He said that the bodies of the militants were brought to the provincial capital.
Due to a rise in Taliban-led violence, more than 5,000 people, most of them insurgents but also including hundreds of Afghan and international forces, have been killed since the beginning of the year in Afghanistan.