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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Five killed in suspected Taleban attacks |
| 2005-06-04 |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Suspected Taleban rebels have killed at least five people in four separate gun and explosives attacks in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday. A remote-controlled bomb killed a local militia commander in the provincial capital of Lashkargah in Helmand on Friday, Helmand's intelligence chief Amanullah Jan told AFP. In another attack the same day a government driver was killed and his assistant badly injured when rebels ambushed their vehicle in neighboring Zabul province, said local police commander Qaim Jan. The previous day, suspected Taleban gunmen killed a truck driver and another man and torched their oil tanker on the road between central Uruzgan province and Kandahar, the birthplace of the fundamentalist Islamic movement. The tanker had been transporting fuel for US forces, local military commander General Muslim Hamid told AFP. Earlier the insurgents had stopped a taxi on the same road and killed an Afghan soldier, wounding four passengers in a shootout. The rebels "took control of the road for several hours", Uruzgan governor Jan Mohammad Khan said. Hamid said the rebels had |
| Posted by:Steve White |