Eight suspected Taleban militants were killed and three captured as Afghan and US-led troops raided their hideouts in south-eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday. The raids by Afghan security forces, supported by members of the 19,000-strong US-led coalition, were conducted on Saturday in the Shar-i-Safa district of Zabul province, said local police commander Ghulam Rasoul Aka.
"During the operation we killed eight Taleban and captured three others," he said. At least one policeman was wounded in the day-long gunbattle, he added.
Coalition military officials declined immediate comment.
One Afghan policeman was killed and another wounded on Saturday when militants attacked a police checkpoint in the eastern province of Wardak, said interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal.
The "terrorists" fled after the attack, Mashal said.
The US-led military said it detained a suspected suicide bomber near their base in Salerno near the Pakistani border as he tried to detonate a series of explosives attached to his body.
In another encounter on Saturday Afghan troops killed a regional Taleban commander and captured six others in the Charchino district of the central province of Uruzgan, the defence ministry said on Sunday. The man identified as Mullah Abdul Qader was killed when troops raided militants' hideouts in Charchino, a Taleban stronghold, it said.
Also on Saturday Afghan troops killed an "enemy combatant" in Qalat city in Zabul province, a separate statement said.