Fresh attacks linked to Taleban insurgents killed eight people in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said Monday, with four of the dead working as doctors in a remote province.
The four doctors and their driver - all Afghans - were killed in the normally calm western province of Badghis when unidentified attackers stormed a health clinic late Sunday, a provincial governor said Monday.
Governor Anayatullah Anayat blamed the attack on the clinic, funded by a range of foreign non-government organisations, on "enemies of the government and peace", a term often used to refer to Taleban fighters.
Two counter-narcotics policemen were also killed in the south on Monday when a bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying them on a mission to eradicate opium poppy fields, police said. A civilian truck driver was also killed in Helmand Monday when suspected
Taleban rebels stopped his vehicle, which was supplying goods to US-led coalition forces, and shot him dead, police said.
Two coalition soldiers were killed and four wounded in that battle, although the coalition has said friendly fire may have caused some of the casualties. Thirty-two Taleban were killed.
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