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January 13, 2008

Taliban Kill 8 Police Officers in Southern Afghanistan
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1AE73E8:A6F02AD83191E1601BF84404ED4B70F921A4E82C900CD027& Also in Helmand
province, suicide bomber blew himself up killing one police officer,
wounding at least four other people Afghan authorities say Taliban
militants attacked a police checkpoint in the country's south Sunday,
killing at least eight officers.

Police say militants stormed a police post in the Maywand district of
Kandahar province.







Afghans stand around coffin of a suicide attack victim in Lashkar Gah,
provincial capital of Helmand province, 13 Jan 2008In neighboring
Helmand province, officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up
Sunday, killing one police officer and wounding at least four other
people.

Police say the bomber, with explosives strapped to his body, tried to
enter the house of a senior police official in the town of Lashkar
Gah, and was stopped by guards.

Officials say he detonated his explosives, killing a policeman and
wounding two children along with at least two other police officers.

Elsewhere, the Netherlands' Defense Ministry said Sunday that two
Dutch soldiers had been killed in combat.

The ministry said in a statement the soldiers came under hostile fire
near their base at Deh Rawod in Uruzgan province Saturday.

The two were participating in an operation to gauge prospects for the
return of displaced Afghans. Hundreds of Dutch and Afghan soldiers are
involved in the operation.

More than 1,600 Dutch soldiers are deployed in Uruzgan as part of the
NATO-led international security force.

A total of 14 Dutch troops have been killed in Afghanistan, either in
combat or accidents.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.




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