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| Afghan policemen kidnapped in Taliban bus attack |
| 2018-03-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters have killed at least six coppers in an attack on a checkpoint and kidnapped dozens of bus passengers in two separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, officials said. A group of fighters wearing army uniforms kidnapped 30 people, including 19 coppers, after stopping a bus on Tuesday night at the border between Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces. "There were civilians in the bus as well and we are trying to identify the people kidnapped in the attack," Qudratullah Khushbakht, a front man for the Kandahar governor, told Al Jazeera. In the second incident, a police checkpoint in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province came under attack by the Taliban fighters leaving six coppers dead and wounding five others, General Abdul Razik, Kandahar's police chief, told local media. The Taliban grabbed credit for both attacks saying they kidnapped coppers "alive". The Afghan army and the US-led coalition forces continue to battle the Taliban for the control of areas in the country but the security situation has been deteriorating. |
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