 A roadside bomb killed four Afghan policemen and wounded two on Thursday in the southern province of Khost, a senior police official said. Khost is one of the main centres of activity of Taliban guerrillas fighting a three-year-old insurgency against government and US-led forces. "A remote control bomb blast in Ismail Khail Mandozai district killed four people and wounded two," said Khost Deputy Police Chief Colonel Mohammad Zaman Khan. A district chief was among the wounded, he added. On Monday, security forces in Khost asked for support from US forces against a militant nest, and seven rebels were killed by US artillery fire. US and Afghan security forces have detained at least 27 suspected militants since Saturday, half of them in Kandahar, another southern province. |