Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Afghanistan

Roadside Bomb Kills Two Police In Afghanistan

(RFE/RL)

(RFE/RL)

27 January -- Afghan police says two policemen were killed and two wounded in Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb today in a restive southern province.

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January 27, 2006


District police chief Haji Zaman blamed neo-Taliban guerrillas for the attack, which happened on a main road in Helmand Province.


Dozens of people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a wave of attacks across Afghanistan's south and east in recent months.


(Reuters)

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