Taliban militants, in a series of pre-dawn attack on the police, killed nine policemen and wounded three others in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the police said.
A group of insurgents started attacking a border police post in Shor Abak district early Tuesday morning and then used roadside mines to target a convoy of police vehicles who were coming to the site for support, Sayed Aqa Saqib, Kandahar's police chief, told Xinhua.
Five policemen of the police post were killed, and four policemen coming for support died as their vehicles were struck by mines, he said.
Saqib said two vehicles were damaged in the mine blast and one more was burned to ground near the police post after being set on fire by attackers.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a purported Taliban spokesman, while claiming the responsibility, said some 12 policemen were killed in the fierce attacks.
The Taliban, after being ousted from power in 2001, went into insurgency and continued to attack the Afghan government and Afghanistan-based foreign troops.
Escalating conflicts and violence left 8,000 people dead in Afghanistan in 2007, a bloodiest one since 2001.
Source:Xinhua
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