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    June 22, 2011

12 Afghan Police Killed or Injured in Taliban Attacks

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   The lifeless body of a police officer is carried from an ambulance at
   the hospital in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 22, 2011.
   Photo: AP
   The lifeless body of a police officer is carried from an ambulance at
   the hospital in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 22, 2011.

   Afghan officials say at least 12 policemen have been killed or wounded
   in two separate Taliban attacks on checkpoints.
   In one of the assaults, authorities said six policemen were killed in
   an early morning gunfight Wednesday with insurgents in the Qarabagh
   district 120 kilometers southwest of Kabul.
   On Sunday, three police were killed in a similar insurgent attack on
   their checkpoint in the same district.
   In the second incident Wednesday, at least six policemen were killed or
   wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in
   Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province. Clashes erupted between
   insurgents and police after the bombing.
   Earlier, on Tuesday, Afghan officials say a suicide bomber blew himself
   up outside the offices of the central Parwan province's governor,
   killing two people and wounding two others. Officials said the governor
   escaped unharmed. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for the
   Parwan suicide bombing.
   In other violence Tuesday, NATO said one of its soldiers was killed
   following a bomb blast in the south.
   The Taliban has stepped up its attacks on government officials and
   Afghan and international troops in recent months.

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

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