Taliban fighters attacked a police patrol, killing four policemen, wounding two others and taking away two more in southwestern Afghan province of Nimruz, provincial governor said Friday.
The ambush on police vehicle took place Thursday evening in Chakhansur district of Nimruz, provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told Xinhua via phone.
Earlier, a purported spokesman for the Taliban Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Xinhua via phone from an unknown location that the outfit's fighters killed four policemen, kidnapped two others and captured six machine guns during the attack.
The Taliban waged insurgency since being removed from power in late 2001 but continued to launch guerrilla-style attacks on government forces and foreign troops deployed in the country with anti-terror missions.
Taliban's fugitive chief Mullah Mohammad Omar in a statement released early this week vowed to accelerate militant activities.
Escalating militancy-related violence killed a record over 6,000 people in the post-Taliban nation last year.
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