A suicide attacker rammed a car full of explosives into a police convoy in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, the government said.The attack in Nimroz province, blamed on the "enemies of Afghanistan" -- a common reference to the Taliban -- comes with presidential and provincial council elections just weeks away and amid mounting violence. "A police supply convoy came under attack from a suicide bomber. As a result, three border police, including their commander, were killed and four other police wounded," the Interior Ministry said.
Gunbattle: Separately, the Taliban attacked a military supply convoy in southern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that killed 21 Taliban and three border police, AP quoted a provincial official. The convoy was targeted on Wednesday soon after it crossed the border from Pakistan, said Hamidullah Zhwak, a spokesman for the governor of Paktika province. He said it was guarded by more than 80 private security guards, and he had no reports that any of them were killed or wounded.