| A total of 11 civilians and 13 policemen were killed in a series of blasts and Taliban attacks in Afghanistan yesterday, officials said. Nine police officers were killed in Taliban attacks in southern Kandahar, provincial police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib said. The other four were killed in a blast south of Kabul. Among the civilian dead were three children killed by a blast while playing near a police station outside Kandahar city. Earlier in the day, a woman, a child and six men were killed when an explosion hit a bus in Farah province. |