Two shepherd boys among 10 killed in Afghan unrest

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GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Aug 22 (AFP): Two shepherd boys were killed in the cross- fire as police clashed with Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan, police said today.
The children, from a nomadic tribe, died in fighting in the southern Afghan province of Ghazni where Taliban militants have been holding 19 South Koreans hostage for more than a month.
"We're investigating to find out how those two kids were killed. We don't yet know if they were killed by police or enemy fire," provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai told AFP.
He said the fighting Tuesday lasted several hours and a number of Taliban were also killed, although he could not give a figure.
Two Taliban fighters died in a separate clash elsewhere in the province on the same day, he added.
In other violence, two policemen and four militants were killed in fighting in the eastern province of Paktika.
The violence was the latest in an upsurge of Taliban-led unrest which has plagued Afghanistan since the hardline Islamic militia was ousted by a US-led invasion in late 2001.