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Afghanistan
Census official, police among 24 killed in Afghan unrest
2008-04-27
Bomb blasts killed three Afghan policemen and four suspected Taliban militants on Saturday, officials said, also reporting that 17 other people, including a population census official, died in unrest on Friday.

Two police officers were killed on Saturday when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicle in the southern province of Ghazni, provincial spokesman Zia Wali told AFP, blaming the attack on the Taliban. Three others were wounded, he said. A third police officer was killed and another wounded also on Saturday in a similar blast in the southwestern province of Farah, Regional Police Commander Khalilullah Ziayee said, also accusing the Taliban.

More than three dozen Afghan policemen have been killed in attacks this month, according to an AFP tally.

Explosion:
Four suspected Taliban militants were killed when a car they were using to transport explosives blew up.
Also on Saturday, four suspected Taliban militants were killed when a car they were using to transport explosives blew up in the eastern province of Laghman, a provincial official said. “Four terrorists were killed when the vehicle that they used to transport explosives for terrorist activities exploded. We think they were [the] Taliban,” provincial spokesman Abdul Wakil Atak told AFP.

In another attack blamed on the militants, a district director for the census due in August was killed in an ambush in the eastern province of Paktia on Friday, a provincial spokesman said. His driver was also killed, said local government spokesman Rahmatullah Samoon. “It was the work of the enemies of Afghanistan,” Samoon told AFP, referring to the Taliban.
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