Taliban Kills 9 Police Officers In Afghanistan
A pair of militant attacks killed nine police officers in southern Afghanistan Sunday and the Netherlands announced that two of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in the south.
Taliban militants killed eight officers in an attack on a police checkpoint in Kandahar province, said Sadullah Khan, a police officer in neighboring Neven district. A suicide bomber killed another policeman and wounded eight other people when he blew himself up in a housing compound in the town of Lashkar Gah in neighboring Helmand province, officials said.
Guards challenged the bomber when he tried to enter the house of a regional police commander and the man detonated himself, killing the policemen and wounding two children, four civilians and two other police officers, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain Andiwal said.
The Netherlands' Defense Ministry said two Dutch soldiers _ a 20-year-old private and a 22-year-old corporal _ were killed and in southern Afghanistan Saturday.
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AP | NOOR KHAN | January 13, 2008 02:39 PM