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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, July 10

Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:13am EDT
July 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0800 GMT on Friday.

GHAZNI - Two policemen were killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the Giro district of southeastern Ghazni province on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

GHAZNI - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed several Taliban insurgents and detained four during a raid on a compound in the same district of Ghazni overnight, the U.S. military said in a statement. One insurgent was wounded, it said.

GHAZNI - Six Taliban were killed and one policeman was wounded when militants attacked a government building in Ghazni's Arjestan district overnight, a local official said.

(Compiled by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Paul Tait)


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