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Seven police killed in Afghan blast

By: Our Staff Reporter | July 04, 2009, 6:29 pm |

A roadside bomb tore through a police vehicle in an insurgent attack in a southern Afghanistan flashpoint on Saturday, killing seven officers, the interior ministry said. The incident took place in Registan district in Kandahar province, a hotbed for the Taliban-led insurgency, the ministry said. "A roadside bomb struck a police vehicle which resulted in the martyrdom of seven policemen," the statement said. Two other officers were wounded in the blast, which the ministry blamed on insurgents. In the north, a bomb blast killed an Afghan civilian and wounded another in the province of Jawzjan, the ministry said. The Taliban insurgency, now at its deadliest since the 2001 US-led invasion, is concentrated in southern and eastern Afghanistan but has also affected some parts of the previously peaceful north.