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| Dozens killed in Afghan carnage | |
| 2008-05-28 | |
| A dozen policemen and 12 civilians including three children were killed in violence Tuesday, officials said, in one of insurgency-hit Afghanistan's bloodiest days in weeks. Five of the policemen were killed in an exchange of fire with Taliban rebels who attacked their remote outpost on the Pakistani border in the southern province of Kandahar in the early hours of the morning, police said. Four others sent as reinforcements were killed when their vehicles were blown up by remote-controlled bombs, Kandahar police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb told AFP. "They were going to reinforce the post under attack," he said. "We lost nine policemen."
Also Tuesday, three police officers and a civilian passer-by were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Logar province just south of the capital, Kabul, police there said. "It was a remote-control bomb that struck one of our police vehicles patrolling the area," Logar police chief Ghulam Mustafa said. "We blame the Taliban for this attack." Eight civilians were killed in a third blast, also caused by a roadside bomb, in the southwestern province of Farah, deputy provincial governor Younus Rasouli told AFP. Several other people were injured in the bombing in the province's troubled Delaram district, the official said, without giving a precise toll. "It was the work of the Taliban. They had planted the mine to target security forces but it hit the civilian bus," Rasouli said. Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahamdi claimed responsibility for the Kandahar attacks but there were no immediate claims of responsibility for the Farah one. US-led forces pursuing anti-militant operations in the restive south announced meanwhile they had killed "several" rebels in raids in Helmand province, a heartland of the Taliban-led insurgency and a booming drugs trade. The militants were killed in Garmser district bordering Pakistan during a hunt for a "Taliban leader involved with weapons smuggling operations," the US-led coalition said in a statement. Thousands of US Marines serving under NATO are also operating in Garmser, which military officials say is used as a logistics hub for the Al-Qaeda-linked rebels who skim profits off Afghanistan's huge drugs trade. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 May God send them all speedily to Paradise... except for the rebel/militant/terrorist. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-28 22:35 |