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Attacks 'kill 17' in Afghanistan | |
(about 5 hours later) | |
Reports from Afghanistan say at least 17 people, including three insurgents, have been killed in a day of violence which included two suicide attacks. | |
Five of the dead were police who were killed in the south-east. | |
Correspondents say the Taleban and their allies are increasingly resorting to roadside bombings and ambushes. | |
Meanwhile, seven United Nations staff - two of them German, five Afghan - have been kidnapped in the central province of Wardak, local officials say. | |
The governor of neighbouring Ghazni province, Mirajuddin Pathan, told the BBC that the group were thought to have been taken to the border area between the two provinces. | |
UN officials were not immediately available for comment. | |
Shots fired | |
The police chief of the south-eastern province of Zabul told the BBC that the Taleban attacked a convoy of his men on the main highway which links Kabul with the south and west of the country. | |
Britain says other countries should supply more troops | |
He said five policemen had been killed and six injured. | |
Further west on the same road in Helmand province an army officer said three of his colleagues were killed by a remotely controlled device. | |
There have also been incidents in three adjoining provinces in the east near the Pakistani border. | |
Two suicide attackers jointly attacked a police compound in Khost. | |
Two police were killed when one of the attackers blew himself up and the other fired shots before being shot dead by police. | |
In Paktia province police said a Filipino road engineer and an Afghan guard were killed in ambushes. | |
In Loghar, near Kabul, an office which gives security advice said a staff member and driver working for a non-governmental organisation were both killed in their car by men waiting on a motorcycle. | |
In the capital a suicide bomber struck near a Turkish military convoy but killed only himself while wounding a passer-by. | |
The violence came as a committee of British MPs urged Nato to increase its troop presence on the ground in Afghanistan. |