Taliban Kills Police At Afghan Checkpoint

(RFE/RL)
April 2, 2006 -- An Afghan provincial official says a Taliban rebel posing as a traveler shot dead four police officers at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country.

AP quoted a provincial administrator in Helmand Province as saying the assailant asked the officers if he could spend the night on March 31 because he was walking alone along a remote road.

After the officers had gone to sleep, the man grabbed one of their rifles and opened fire, killing the four. A fifth officer woke up and shot the man dead.

AP cited purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammed Yousaf as later claiming responsibility for the killings.

(AP)

Taliban Kills Police At Afghan Checkpoint

(RFE/RL)April 2, 2006 -- An Afghan provincial official says a Taliban rebel posing as a traveler shot dead four police officers at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country.

(RFE/RL)
April 2, 2006 -- An Afghan provincial official says a Taliban rebel posing as a traveler shot dead four police officers at a remote checkpoint in the south of the country.