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Insurgents Attack Checkpoint in Afghanistan, Kill 4 Police

by Associated Press

   KABUL, AFGHANISTAN --

   An Afghan official says insurgents have killed at least four police in
   an attack on a checkpoint.

   Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor in the eastern Ghazni
   province, says five other police were wounded in the attack late
   Saturday. He says the militants opened fire on the checkpoint and then
   targeted reinforcements with a roadside bomb.

   No one has claimed the attack, but the Taliban are active in the area
   and control large parts of the province.

   The Taliban stormed a government compound in another part of Ghazni
   late Thursday, killing 15 people, including three senior local
   officials.