By DPA
Kabul : Six security guards and two policemen were killed when Taliban attacked a convoy, transporting supplies to foreign forces in southern Afghanistan, police said Sunday.
The attack took place in Maidan Shar district of southern Wardak province Sunday morning, Muzafar Ali, provincial police chief said.
“Six security guards and two police, who were escorting the convoy were killed when Taliban fired a rocket propelled grenade from their vehicle against the convoy,” he said.
Ali said that four other guards were wounded in the attack, which happened on Kabul-Kandahar highway, some 30 km south of Kabul.
Taliban insurgents since the ouster of their government in late 2001 have attacked dozens of convoys supplying logistics to international forces in the country.