Taleban insurgents kill eight Afghan security forces: official
(AFP)
3 August 2005
3 August 2005
KABUL - Taleban insurgents have killed four Afghan troops and four police officers in an attack on a checkpoint in the country’s east, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said on Wednesday.
“A group of 50 terrorists attacked a checkpost in Kamdesh district of Nuristan province in which four soldiers and four police were killed yesterday evening,” Mashal told AFP.
Kamdesh is about 220 kilometers (140 miles) northeast of the capital Kabul.
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