Taliban rebels have ambushed a police convoy in southern Afghanistan, taking at least 10 officers and a district police chief captive, while fighting elsewhere left four insurgents and an Afghan soldier dead, officials said Saturday. The attack on the convoy occurred Thursday as the police were traveling on a road north from Kandahar to the district of Miana Shien, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of Kandahar, said deputy provincial police chief Gen. Salim Khan. "They fought for two hours," said Khan. "We have tried to reach our men by satellite phone, but they are not responding." The Associated Press quoted Khan as saying that the men are all believed to have been captured.
