KABUL, March 17 (KUNA) -- At least half a dozen policemen were killed and as many wounded Friday when a roadside bomb flipped over the vehicle they were aboard, in southern Afghanistan. The policemen arrived in the area to retrieve bodies of four foreigners killed by Taliban earlier this week.
Asadullah Khalid, Governor of the Kandahar province, where the blast took place, told newsmen after being told about the killing of the four foreigners - three Albanians and one German national - by Taliban, that an investigation team was formed to locate and bring the bodies to the provincial headquarters.
When the police team was on its way back with the four bodies, one of their vehicles hit the roadside bomb planted by Taliban, killing six policemen and injuring as many. He said the injured were rushed to the provincial headquarters for treatment.
The fresh incident happened at a time when Taliban chief Mullah Omar, in a purported statement, warned of severe attacks against local and foreign forces in Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, March 17 (KUNA) -- An Iraqi civilian was killed, four others wounded, on Friday when an explosive device targeted a civilian vehicle west of Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
An Iraqi police source told reporters that the explosive device went off when a car transporting workers passed by on a road between Hawijah and Baiji, noting that the blast killed the driver of the car and wounded four other occupants.