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Afghan government official, three police killed in attacks
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 04 - 2009


An Afghan government official was gunned down in
southern Afghanistan on Sunday, while three border police forces were
killed in a roadside bomb blast in the country's eastern region,
officials said, according to dpa.
Abdul Zahir, head of public transport in southern Kandahar
province, was gunned down by two attackers riding on motorbikes on
Sunday morning as he made his way to his office in Kandahar city, the
Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The attack came a day after three suicide bombers stormed the
office for Kandahar's provincial governor, located in the heart of
the city, killing themselves and five policemen. The provincial
governor was unharmed, but nine people were wounded.
Three border police forces were killed and as many were wounded on
Saturday afternoon when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb
in Babrak Tani area of south-eastern Khost province, Abdul Qayoum, a
police official said Sunday.
Roadside and suicide attacks have become common tactics for the
Taliban militants, who are waging a seven-year-old insurgency against
Afghan and international forces since the ouster of their government
in late 2001.
Separately, US-led coalition forces destroyed a Taliban anti-
aircraft ZPU-2 weapon in a "precision strike" in the Nad Ali district
of southern Helmand province on Sunday, the US military said in a
statement.
The Taliban recently obtained anti-aircraft weapons that pose a
serious threat to NATO-led forces stationed in the country, who
mostly rely on use of air power as part of their anti-insurgent
operations.
The coalition had destroyed two more rebel anti-aircraft weapons
in the district in the past one week.
In another incident, a coalition drone crashed in south-eastern
province of Paktika on Sunday shortly after it took off, the US
military said in a separate statement.
The statement said the unmanned aircraft experienced technical
problems and that there was no "enemy activity" in the area at the
time of the crash.
More than 70,000 international troops deployed from 42 nations are
stationed in Afghanistan. More than 25,000 more troops, with most of
them Americans, are expected to arrive in the war-shattered country
in coming months to provide security for the presidential elections
in August.


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