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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban attack Afghan police patrol in Kandahar, kill five |
| 2018-05-09 |
| [DAWN] An Afghan official has said that at least five coppers have been killed in a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack on their patrol in southern Kandahar province. A front man for the provincial chief police in Kandahar said nine other police were maimed in Sunday’s attack in Marouf district near the border with Pakistain. The front man, Zia Durrani, said 15 Taliban fighters were killed and 11 others were maimed in the gunbattle. Durrani said on Monday that the battle lasted several hours after reinforcements arrived. A front man for the Taliban, Qari Yussouf Ahmadi, grabbed credit for the attack in Kandahar in a statement sent to media. |
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