Four Afghan police killed in militant ambush
Militants attacked a police vehicle in western Afghanistan, killing four officers, an official said today.
The police were ambushed as they travelled by car in Guzara district, Heart province yesterday evening, said Noor Khan Nekzad, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.
Four officers were killed and two others wounded, Nekzad said.
That attack came a day after Afghan and international forces clashed with Taliban insurgents in two separate gun battles in the south and west, leaving 13 suspected militants dead and four other people wounded.
Afghan and US-led coalition forces launched an overnight operation late on Monday in Bakwa district in western Farah province, killing two suspected militants and wounding two, said a spokesman for provincial police chief, Baryalai Khan.
Two police were wounded, and eight suspected militants arrested.
Taliban-led militants have stepped up attacks in recent weeks, but Nato forces claim to have blunted a vaunted rebel “spring offensive” with a series of military operations aimed at consolidating the shaky grip of President Hamid Karzai’s government.
