| Reports from the field; looks like Spin Boldak is back in play. |
Four policemen were killed in separate incidents in Kandahar and Herat provinces, officials said on Sunday. Border police commander Muhammad Aqa informed Pajhwok Afghan News two cops were killed and another three wounded in a bomb blast in the Spin Boldak town this afternoon. Aqa added the remote-controlled explosive device hit vehicles of police patrolling the district bordering Pakistans southeastern Balochistan province. The explosion comprehensively destroyed two Ranger pick-up trucks of the border police. 
Earlier, Herat police spokesman Col. Noor Khan Nekzad said a constable shot dead two of his colleagues Saturday night. He attributed the incident to differences between the constables. But Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed the two cops were gunned down by fighters in an attack on their check-post in Sarjangal area. The militants also seized weapons from the policemen, he said. In Gardez, the capital of the southeastern Paktika province, police arrested four container drivers supplying food to Coalition forces. Brig. Gen. Asmatullah Alizai, provincial police head, said the drivers were selling eatables and other materials.