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FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, July 1

Wed Jul 1, 2009 7:39am EDT
July 1 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1130 GMT on Wednesday.

KUNAR - Three members of a family, including two children, were killed and four wounded when a rocket hit a house in eastern Kunar province, a provincial official said. It was not clear who fired the rocket.

GHAZNI - Four Taliban insurgents were killed while planting a landmine in Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, overnight, the interior ministry said.

HERAT - One policeman was killed and three wounded when their checkpoint was attacked by insurgents in Rabaat Sangee district, close to the border with Iran and Turkmenistan, on Tuesday night, said Herat security spokesman Samanwal Nourkhan Nikzad. A spokesman for Harakat-ul Mujahedin, a new Herat-based militant group which says its is a Taliban offshoot, said they killed six police officers and captured six more. Nikzad denied their claim.

(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin and Sharafuddin Sharafyar; Editing by Paul Tait)






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