Eight cops killed, two kidnapped in Taliban attack

By Xinhua

Kabul : Eight policemen were killed when Taliban fighters attacked a police checkpoint Sunday morning in Maiwand district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, the police said.

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“The militants who came in two pickups also took away two other policemen and some weapons after the killing,” a police officer in the district said.

Taliban’s supposed spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said that their fighters killed 12 policemen in the pre-dawn attack and took their weapons.