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Afghan workers killed in ambush
Nineteen construction workers have been killed in southern Afghanistan when their bus was hit by a bomb and then fired on by insurgents, officials say.
Three other workers were hurt in the attack in southern Kandahar province, the interior ministry said.
Meanwhile police say they have killed 20 suspected Taleban in central Uruzgan province. One policeman also died.
A spokesperson for the Taleban said that they had killed 14 policemen in the incident and denied losing any men.
The incidents come as Afghan President Hamid Karzai attempts to shore up support for military and financial aid to Afghanistan during a trip to Canada.
On Sunday, Afghan and Nato forces had hailed the success of a joint operation, codenamed Operation Medusa, in Panjwayi district of Kandahar.
The British commander of Nato troops in Afghanistan, Lt Gen David Richards, said Operation Medusa had been a "significant success" in clearing at least 400 Taleban fighters from Panjwayi.
A day later at least four Canadian soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber during a Nato patrol in Panjwayi.
Hundreds of people have been killed in violence in Afghanistan this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5371232.stm
Meanwhile police say they have killed 20 suspected Taleban in central Uruzgan province. One policeman also died.
A spokesperson for the Taleban said that they had killed 14 policemen in the incident and denied losing any men.
The incidents come as Afghan President Hamid Karzai attempts to shore up support for military and financial aid to Afghanistan during a trip to Canada.
On Sunday, Afghan and Nato forces had hailed the success of a joint operation, codenamed Operation Medusa, in Panjwayi district of Kandahar.
The British commander of Nato troops in Afghanistan, Lt Gen David Richards, said Operation Medusa had been a "significant success" in clearing at least 400 Taleban fighters from Panjwayi.
A day later at least four Canadian soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber during a Nato patrol in Panjwayi.
Hundreds of people have been killed in violence in Afghanistan this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5371232.stm
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Zemeri Bashary, the Afghan interior ministry spokesman, said Friday's the attack began shortly after noon in Kandahar province when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus.
Some of the labourers may have been killed by the bomb, while others were shot by insurgents who attacked the panicked workers with gunfire, he said.
Bashary said 19 construction workers were killed in the attack and three wounded.
The ambush, in Shorabak district, occurred in a remote area of southern Kandahar province that borders Pakistan, some 180km south of Kandahar city.
Oil tankers torched
Early on Friday five oil tankers supplying fuel to foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan were set ablaze in an attack that left one man dead.
A group of men armed with guns and rockets attacked the tankers in Nangarhar province as the drivers were sleeping having just crossed over from Pakistan.
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