Taleban insurgents killed at least three policemen and wounded eight in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said yesterday. The overnight raids were the latest in a series of attacks by Taleban fighters and happened in areas close to the border with Pakistan. Two policemen were killed in an ambush the southern province of Helmand while a senior officer was killed when guerrillas attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Khost, officials said. The police headquarters was partially destroyed in the battle, they said.Four policemen were wounded in the attack in Khost while four others guarding an Indian firm, involved in a road construction project, were wounded in another Taleban raid in the eastern province of Kunar. No Indian workers were hurt and there was no word on whether the attackers suffered any casualties.
Taleban fighters were also suspected of killing a deputy provincial governor of Nimroz province on Thursday. He was ambushed while traveling from his southern province to attend a conference in Kabul on national reconciliation, a security official said.