KABUL - New Taleban attacks killed 14 Afghan policemen, police announced on Monday. The bodies of 11 of the policemen were recovered on Sunday, a day after they were killed by Taleban fighters in the southern province of Helmand, a police commander told AFP on condition of anonymity. They were moved to Kabul, where they had come from, the commander said.News of the killings was brought by a sole surviving policeman who made it to the town of Gereshk a day after the bloody incident, the official added.
Three more policemen, including a district counter-criminal chief, were killed in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday by a remotely controlled bomb similar to those regularly used by Taleban, a police spokesman said. “Seven other policemen were injured. It was the work of the Taleban,” provincial police spokesman Abdul Ghafoor told AFP.