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Roadside bomb kills 4 policemen in Kandahar

Sunday, 20 July 2008


KANDAHAR, Jul 19 (AP) : Police say a roadside blast in

southern Afghanistan has killed four policemen.

Khan Mohammad, a police official in Kandahar province, says the blast struck a patrol in Maywand district Saturday.

Mohammad says four policemen were killed and another was wounded.

Separately, Mohammad Nabi Khan, another police official, says a suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint near the main NATO base just outside Kandahar city.

Khan says a child and a policeman were wounded in the explosion Saturday. Suthern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency.