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Roadside bomb kills four Afghan policemen

Other News Materials 14 August 2010 22:38 (UTC +04:00)
Four Afghan policemen were killed and four others wounded Saturday when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle, officials in the southern Afghan province of Helmand said,
Roadside bomb kills four Afghan policemen

Four Afghan policemen were killed and four others wounded Saturday when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle, officials in the southern Afghan province of Helmand said, dpa reported.

"Four policemen were martyred and four others wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle," Daud Ahmadi, the provincial governor's spokesman said. The incident took place in Gherishk, an unsafe district in southern Helmand province, he said.

The vehicle had been on the way to Lashkargah, the capital city of Helmand. The four wounded were evacuated to a provincial hospital.

In the northern province of Kunduz, five insurgents and one policeman were killed Saturday in a gun battle in Ali Abad district, the district governor, Habibullah Mohtashim, told the German Press Agency dpa.

"Nearly 80 insurgents attacked Ali Abad district building Saturday morning," he said.

One policeman was killed in the resulting one-hour firefight.

Militants have recently increased the use of roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan.

Elsewhere, Afghan and German soldiers killed Saturday two insurgents after coming under attack from small arms fire and rocket- propelled grenades in the northern province of Kunduz, NATO said.

No soldiers, who were part of the German military's new army training unit were harmed in the attack, the NATO-led international security force ISAF said.

With the help of a Luna drone, the soldiers later managed to locate and destroy a gun emplacement.

Separately, two guards working for a private security company were killed and 12 others wounded in clashes with the Taliban on Friday night in western Herat province, a police spokesman said.

They were escorting a NATO logistics convoy, he said.

In another attack, a British soldier was killed by small arms fire in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province, Britain's Ministry of Defence said Saturday.

Violence is on the rise throughout Afghanistan as both Afghan and US-led forces and Taliban militants increase their operations against each other.

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