Eleven Taleban were killed in fighting with Afghan security and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province late Friday, provincial police chief Gholum Nabi Mullahkhail told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. There has been a joint Afghan and British operation for the past several weeks to clear the area around a hydropower dam which is under construction iegion.The British are based in the province under the banner of the ISAF forces. Ten suspected Taleban were killed in same area on Thursday in clashes with Afghan and NATO forces.
Taleban militants in neighbouring Kandahar province ambushed a police vehicle late Friday, killing four policemen and seriously wounding three others, provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai told dpa. Alizai said that the police forces had been patrolling in the volatile district of Panjwayi when the ambush took place.The wounded policemen were evacuated to the provincial hospital for treatment, he said, but could not confirm if there were any casualties on Taleban side.