A Taliban bomb in northern Afghanistan on July 25 killed four people and 20 Afghan guards working for the NATO military alliance defected to the insurgents.
The roadside bomb in the Chahardara district of the northern province of Kunduz killed a police commander, his seven-year-old son, and two bodyguards, an Afghan government official said.
Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, dpa reported.
Meanwhile, twenty Afghan guards working for Australian forces in southern Afghanistan defected to the Taliban after a dispute with the soldiers, police said on July 25.
"The Australian soldiers beat the Afghan guards after some verbal disputes in a military camp in Charchino district of Uruzgan province," district police chief Wali Dad said.
The angry guards set the security towers on fire and defected to the Taliban, taking weapons and ammunition, he said.
The defection occurred two days after a police chief and 12 of his men joined the Taliban in the western Farah province. dpa jt ms hah hrs sub tlo jln Authors: Hafiz Ahmadi, Hares Kakar.
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