KANDAHAR - Six missing Afghan police were found beheaded after they were snatched away from their convoy in a Taleban attack, which left four other police killed and three wounded, officials said on Sunday. The convoy of about 30 policemen was on a routine patrol when it came under attack Saturday in the Bahramcha area of Deshu district in Helmand province, some 690 kilometers (431 miles) south of the capital Kabul. âFour police were killed in the two-hour exchange of fire and six other missing police were later found beheaded with their heads atop their chest after a long search for them,â Mohammed Rasoul the border brigade commander of Deshu district told AFP.
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Initially 16 police went missing soon after the fighting, six police were found immediately, four were killed on the spot and six police were taken by Taleban, Rasoul said. The headless bodies of the captured six were later found close to the Pakistani border, he added.
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Provincial governor Mullah Shir Mohammed blamed the attack on Taleban insurgents and said they had crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistani soil, quoting local witnesses. âThe Taleban attacked our border police in four vehicles, they came from Pakistan and escaped back into Pakistan and left the beheaded bodies close to the border,â said Mohammed.
On Saturday a man claiming to be speaking on behalf of the ousted Taleban regime called AFP from an unknown location and claimed responsibility for the attack. |