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KABUL: Suspected Taliban shot dead a policeman and wounded another in volatile southeastern Afghanistan, a district governor said on Monday, in the latest in a string of attacks on the countryâs fledgling police force. The policemen were shot while on patrol late Sunday in Zabul provinceâs Mizan district, governor Mohammad Yunus said. Police detained 15 suspects afterwards. A police post in Logar province near the capital Kabul was meanwhile attacked by âterroristsâ late Sunday but no one was killed in the ensuing gunfight, interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said. A security sweep of the province also yielded 446 grenades for rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and 54.5 kilogrammes (nearly 120 pounds) of heroin and 45.5 kilogrammes of hashish, he said. The police in war-ravaged Afghanistan have been targets of unrest that is blamed on militants loyal to the ousted Taliban regime and other groups, some of them believed to be allied to drug lords.