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| Twelve dead in Afghanistan violence |
| 2008-05-08 |
| Twelve people including three foreign soldiers were killed in a spate of bombings and gun battles in Afghanistan, including one firefight between police and opium growers, officials said Wednesday. The worst gun battle erupted when farmers, whom police said were linked to Taliban and other rebels, resisted anti-drugs forces trying to destroy their opium crop. A policeman and four locals were killed in the fight in Laghman province's Alishing area, about 70 kilometres northeast of Kabul, provincial government spokesman Wakil Atak said. Five policemen were wounded, he said. In one of a string of incidents in the eastern border province of Khost on Wednesday, two NATO soldiers and a civilian were killed when they were hit by a bomb during a routine patrol, the alliance force said. Another two International Security Assistance Force troops were wounded, ISAF said in a statement. Sepatately, a provincial police administrator and his driver were killed when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicles on Wednesday, provincial deputy police chief Colonel Mohammad Youqoub told AFP. Hours later a child was killed and at least three other people, including another child, were wounded when explosives in a car allegedly being prepared for a suicide bombing blew up on the outskirts of the town, police said. |
| Posted by:Fred |