| 16 Afghan police killed in ambush |
| Updated at: 1451 PST, Monday, December 14, 2009 KUNDUZ: Taliban stormed two police posts in the north and south of Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, killing 16 policemen and underscoring the vulnerability of local security forces. Early Monday, militants ambushed a police post on a highway bisecting northeast Afghanistan from Kabul through Baghlan province, which is a main NATO supply route for troops fighting the Taliban insurgency. "Eight police were killed in an attack on their post," Baghlan Governor Mohammad Akbar Barakzai told foreign news agency. Almost simultaneously, eight other officers lost their lives in a similar attack in the province of Helmand, the heartland of the Taliban revolt in the south, the interior ministry said in a statement. "Sixteen policemen lost their lives in two separate attacks by the terrorists," the statement said. "Eight police were martyred in a terrorist attack in the province of Baghlan eight police were martyred in another terrorist attack in the province of Helmand," it said. |
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