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Kabul (dpa) - At least nine policemen were killed after Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a security official told dpa on Saturday.
The insurgents carried out the attack before sunrise on a checkpoint along the Kandahar-Herat highway in Nahr-e-Saraj district, the official added.
However, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Zaman Hamdard told reporters that only three policemen, including a senior police official, were killed and two others wounded during the clashes.
The attack was carried out by two “infiltrator mujahideen,” Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said in a statement, adding that all weapons and equipment at the checkpoint were seized.
Despite ongoing peace talks between the representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, violence continues in the country. (dpa)
The insurgents carried out the attack before sunrise on a checkpoint along the Kandahar-Herat highway in Nahr-e-Saraj district, the official added.
However, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Zaman Hamdard told reporters that only three policemen, including a senior police official, were killed and two others wounded during the clashes.
The attack was carried out by two “infiltrator mujahideen,” Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said in a statement, adding that all weapons and equipment at the checkpoint were seized.
Despite ongoing peace talks between the representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, violence continues in the country. (dpa)
