Taliban insurgents on Thursday kidnapped the director of custom department of the unrest southern Afghan province of Kandahar, local police said.
"Taliban insurgents attacked the viechle of the director on his way from the spinboldak district to Kandahar city in the afternoon," said Sayed Aqa Saqib, provincial police chief, "one security guard was killed and two others injured in the incident."
He also told Xinhua that policemen have started the investigation, but there is no further information so far.
However, Taliban denied such accusation and said they has nothing to do with that incident.
The Taliban, removed from power by the U.S. invasion in late 2001, has waged insurgency against Afghan administration and the international troops deployed in the country.
Rising militancy-related violent incidents have killed over 5,800 people so far this year in the war-torn Afghanistan.
Source:Xinhua
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