16 killed in string of Afghan attacks

29 Jun 2010, 8:53 pm   -   Source: AAP
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Sixteen people including civilians and policemen have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan blamed on the Taliban over the past 24 hours, police say.

Sixteen people including civilians and policemen have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan blamed on the Taliban over the past 24 hours, police said on Tuesday.

Seven Taliban fighters were also killed after ambushing a police convoy in western Afghanistan, provincial police said.

Two civilians were killed and two wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in the Khakrez district of the southern province of Kandahar, Zalmai Ayobi, spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP.

On Monday, six policemen were killed by a roadside bomb that ripped through their pickup truck in the Bala Buluk district of the western province of Farah, said local police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi.

A bomb blast also hit a motorcycle in Bala Buluk the same day, killing two civilians, he said.

Elsewhere in Farah province, seven Taliban militants including a local commander, were killed, three wounded and two arrested after they ambushed a police convoy on Monday, provincial police chief Mohammad Faqir Askar said.

In the southern province of Zabul, insurgents attacked a security company vehicle in the Shahr-e-Safa district on Monday, killing six security guards and wounding five, provincial spokesman Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar said.

Taliban militants have waged a bloody insurgency against Afghan and international forces since their ouster from power in late 2001. The insurgency has claimed thousands of lives, mostly civilians.

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