Afghan police have killed five suspected Taliban militants who raided two checkpoints along a dangerous stretch of highway in southern Afghanistan, and a police official said Sunday the attackers left a mound of bloody clothes behind. The attacks on Saturday night came one day after Afghan forces backed by U.S.-led coalition troops said they killed 41 Taliban insurgents near Kandahar in some of the fiercest fighting in months. Taliban forces reported a lower death toll. Five of the attackers were wounded in the fighting Saturday near the villages of Spin-a-Gabargha and Harji, but there were no injuries to police, said the police chief for Zabul province, Ghulam Nabi Malakhail. There was no immediate response from Taliban spokesmen, ACCORDING TO A REPORT OF CNN.
