Militants Attack Policemen in Kandahar
From Times Wire Reports
Suspected Taliban militants shot dead five policemen and wounded three others in southern Afghanistan, a doctor said.
The policemen were attacked by four gunmen on two motorcycles in Charbagh, a southwestern residential neighborhood of Kandahar, said a doctor at the hospital where the victims were taken.
On Friday, a suspected Taliban rebel killed four policemen as they slept at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand.
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