KABUL: Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan and killed 16 officers, the Interior Ministry said Monday. Seven Afghan police and soldiers were killed in attacks elsewhere.
The policemen were manning a checkpoint in the Maywand district of Kandahar province on Saturday when a large group of militants attacked them, said Zemerai Bashary, the Interior Ministry spokesman.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the militant group was responsible for the killings.
Elsewhere, four Afghan soldiers were killed in a mine explosion Sunday in Uruzgan province, while one soldier was killed in Paktia province in another blast, the Ministry of Defense said in a press release.
In Helmand province, a roadside bomb exploded Monday against a police vehicle driving through Musa Qala, killing two officers, said Musa Qala district chief Haji Bir Mohammad.
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