controlled bomb. Police official Abdul Rahman Aqtash said Sunday that militants attacked a checkpoint overnight in Kunduz province near Tajikistan, killing six border police. He said the death toll could rise. The Ministry of Interior says militants also killed a district chief in Kunduz by remotely detonating a roadside bomb as his car passed. The ministry says five more police were killed by a roadside bomb in northeastern Badakshan province, according to a report of the Associated Press.
