Six Afghan policemen including an officer were killed as they came under Taliban attack in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province, provincial administration's spokesman Ismael Jihangir said Sunday.
"A group of policemen were patrolling in Zana Khan district on Saturday when Taliban insurgents ambushed and killed six policemen on the spot," Jihangir told Xinhua.
He added that Mira Jan, acting police chief of the district, was among the deceased bodies.
However, an official at the press department of the Interior Ministry on the condition of anonymity, disputed the claim, saying only four policemen were killed in the attack, while locals said seven police constables were murdered in the ambush.
Meanwhile, Zabihullah Mujahed, who claims to speak for the Taliban insurgents, told media from an unknown location, that eight police were killed in the attack.
Around 4,000 people, mostly insurgents, have been killed in violent incidents so far this year in war-battered Afghanistan.
Source: Xinhua
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