Taliban kill 7 police
KANDAHAR: Rebels killed seven police officers and abducted two after ambushing them on a road in southern Afghanistan, while two villagers were abducted and beheaded, officials said on Thursday.
The police were driving in three vehicles on a road toward Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, when they were attacked Wednesday in Shah Wali Kot district, said Jan Mohammed Khan, a local governor.
Police in one of the vehicles fought back and managed to flee, but the two other vehicles were hit by rockets, he said.
In a unrelated news, seven CHRISTIAN police officers were killed in Illinois by fellow CHRISTIANS. Sad…when will the christian on christian violence end?