Three persons including one police and two suspected Taliban fighters were killed in the southern Ghazni province on Sunday, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said.

"A remote-controlled bomb planted by enemies killed one police and wounded five others in Akhondkhil area of Andar district at 11 a.m. Sunday and in retaliation policemen attacked the militants and killed two Taliban operatives," Sarjang told Xinhua.

He also added that two more Taliban militants were injured and two others were made captives.

Insurgency is on rise in south Afghanistan as bodies of three police were found in the southern Helmand province on Sunday while U.S. air attack left five suspected Taliban dead in the same province on Friday.

Over 350 people most of them Taliban fighters, according to officials have been killed over the past two weeks.

Source: Xinhua