[Dawn] A roadside kaboom hit a police vehicle on patrol in southern Afghanistan, leaving five coppers dead and one maimed, a senior police official said Saturday.The bomb hit the pickup truck in Trin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, late on Friday, senior provincial police officer Gulab Khan told AFP.
"Five coppers were killed and one maimed," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but roadside kabooms are frequently planted by Taliban beturbanned goons fighting a decade-long war against NATO
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-led foreign troops and Afghan government forces.
Afghan police are particular targets for the jihad boys, as the country prepares to take over full responsibility for security from some 130,000 foreign troops by 2014.
On Friday afternoon, a car was also hit by a roadside kaboom in the Khinjak area of the lovely provincial capital of Uruzgan province, killing one person and wounding two others, according to police front man Farid Ail.