FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:37am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1300 GMT on Friday:

KABUL - A convoy belonging to international troops fired on a civilian car wounding three people including a woman in the center of Kabul city Friday, a police official and witnesses said.

KHOST - A suicide bomber on foot killed a provincial intelligence officer and wounded three other policemen in the Baak district of Khost province some 150 km (90) miles east of Kabul Friday, the provincial district chief said.

NENGARHAR - A suicide bomber targeted a foreign military convoy wounding two soldiers and an interpreter in the eastern city of Jalalabad some 115 km (71) miles east of Kabul on Friday, a provincial official said. Most of the soldiers operating in eastern Afghanistan are Americans.

GHAZNI - Five Taliban insurgents were killed and two Afghan policemen and two other militants were wounded during a gun battle in the Andar district some 200 km (125) miles southwest of Kabul Thursday, the provincial district chief said.

FARAH - Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy belonging to the U.S. security firm USPI killing two guards and setting fire to eleven trucks in the Bala Boluk district some 635 km (395) miles west of Kabul Thursday, a provincial police officer, Juma Khan said. USPI carries supplies for foreign troops in Afghanistan. (Compiled by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Bill Tarrant)

 

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