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| Afghanistan |
| Blast kills six Afghan police |
| 2011-07-08 |
| [Dawn] Six Afghan coppers and a civilian were killed when their car drove over a landmine in the restive southern province of Uruzgan late Wednesday, an official said. "The coppers were en route to their checkpoint from a village in Chora district when their vehicle rolled on a landmine," said district police chief Mohammad Gul. "It killed all six as well as a civilian crossing the area," he added. The Taliban were not immediately available to comment but roadside kabooms are one of the most popular weapons in their decade-long insurgency against the Western-backed Afghan government. The dead coppers belonged to a local village force, trained for three weeks and then paid to keep Talibs out of their areas. |
| Posted by:Fred |