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Taliban detonate mine at Afghan checkpoint, killing 4, wounding 7 officers
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-30 15:24
Suspected Taliban rebels detonated a mine near a police checkpoint in
southern Afghanistan, killing four and wounding seven Afghan police officers,
authorities said Friday.
The attack occurred late Thursday in Helmand province as the officers were
eating dinner at their post, Nazarjusth district police chief Haji Bahadur Khan
said.
He said the mine was buried in the road near the checkpoint and remotely
detonated.
The wounded were brought to a hospital, where four were declared out of
danger and three others were in serious condition, he said.
Authorities were searching for the attackers, but made no arrests so far,
Khan said.
A U.S.-led military campaign ousted the Islamic Taliban militia from power in
late 2001 for allegedly harboring al-Qaida. But the rebels have remained active
along the Afghan-Pakistan border, staging attacks against the Afghan government
and U.S.-led coalition forces.
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