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Taliban grenade police post
24/07/2006 12:52 - (SA)
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| A man in Kabul, Afghanistan, looks at the cover of a book written by Abdul Salam Zaeef. The Taliban's ex-envoy to Pakistan has written his story about mistreatment in the US' Guantanamo Bay prison. (Musadeq Sadeq, AP) |
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Kabul - Hundreds of Taliban fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades and attacked a district police headquarters in Bakwa, southwestern Farah province, on Monday.
About 400 Taliban fighters in 35 pick-up trucks arrived in the town late on Sunday.
Provincial police chief general Sayed Aga Saqib said the Taliban fighters launched a heavy assault on a district police and administration headquarters with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
He said the fighters had retreated toward neighbouring Helmand province after a five-hour battle. The clash left three police dead, and seven wounded.
Also in Farah on Sunday, four suspected suicide attackers riding on two explosive-laden motorbikes were killed when they were challenged by police.
Two of the suspected attackers were shot dead by police, said Saqib. The other two were killed when police shot at their bike and detonated the explosives.
Bomb detonated from house
A boy passer-by was killed in the explosion and the child's father was wounded, said Saqib.
A remotely donated car bomb seriously wounded two United States-led coalition soldiers as they patrolled with Afghan army soldiers in Daman district of southern Kandahar province on Monday.
A van appeared to have broken down on the main road to Kabul but exploded as the patrol passed, said coalition spokesperson major Scott Lundy.
Afghan officials said it was a suicide attack, but the coalition said initial reports showed the bomb was remotely detonated from a house.
Grenade thrown at police
The coalition did not reveal the wounded soldiers nationalities or identities. Lundy said their conditions were "serious but not life-threatening".
A man travelling in a taxi from neighbouring Pakistan exploded two grenades at a border police checkpoint in Khost province on Sunday. Police said one civilian was killed in the attack.
Police said the man had thrown the first grenade at police, but did not hurt anyone.
The man detonated a second grenade when police surrounded the car. The blast killed him and one other person in the car, said regional police chief general Mohammed Ayub.
Gunmen killed a doctor and a driver for the aid agency World Vision in western Ghor province on Sunday.
The two were driving to Chaghcharan from Charsada, where they had delivered medicine, said Karimuddin Razazada, deputy governor of Ghor province.
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