Hundreds of Taliban captured a remote district in Afghanistan overnight, killing two policemen and driving out the rest, officials said, in a new show of force in an intensifying insurgency.The rebels attacked the Ajristan district centre in the province of Ghazni, about 200 kilometres southwest of Kabul, with artillery and rocket fire, the interior ministry said. They torched the main government building, Ghazni police chief General Alishah Ahmadzai said.
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In another attack, militants on motorbikes shot dead two employees of the National Directorate of Security - Afghanistan's intelligence agency - in the eastern city of Khost, said the provincial deputy head of intelligence, named only Mirajan.
And a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in close to an International Security Assistance Force convoy in central town of Tirin Kot caused only a bump to the head of an ISAF soldier, an alliance spokesman said. The attack in the province of Uruzgan comes a day after a suicide attack on a police bus in the capital yesterday killed 13 people.