Love those BBC quotes.Afghan security forces have killed several suspected Taleban fighters in different clashes in the south of the country, the authorities have said. A spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province said dozens of militants tried to storm the police station in the town of Miana Shien. He said 12 Taleban were killed and four policemen injured in the clash.
Clashes with Taleban fighters have also taken place in Helmand and Uruzgan provinces, authorities said.
Armed men hit the police compound in Miana Shien with automatic rifle and machine gun fire at around sundown on Friday, leading to several hours of heavy fighting, officials said. "Four of our policemen were injured but they killed 12 Taleban fighters," said Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for the Kandahar governor. He said police repulsed the attack and the militants took away their dead and wounded as they
That has to slow them down - ought to make pursuit easier and allow them to all be killed or wounded. And counted. Why did it not happen?
'District recaptured'
In another incident in the south, a band of militants attacked a police checkpoint in a "hit-and-run" attack in neighbouring Helmand province. Officials say four policemen were wounded and that 18 people were captured and are being questioned. "We believe that at least six of those captured were directly involved in the attack," provincial spokesman Moheedin Khan said.
The Afghan defence ministry reported that at least 15 rebels were killed when dozens of Afghan and coalition troops re-captured a district in the south from Taleban fighters. It said troops dropped by aircraft stormed the remote Chora district in Uruzgan province late on Friday and pushed the Taleban back into the mountains. "At least 15 Taleban bodies were found, and the overall casualties are believed to be 20," the statement said.