Kandahar, Afghanistan (dpa) – A bomb detonated by remote control in southern Afghanistan killed seven Afghan policemen, a foreign soldier and their interpreter, an Afghan official said Sunday. The bomb struck a patrol of Afghan police and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Saturday night in Kandahar province's Arghandab district, said district governor Shah Mohammad Ahamdi. Local police are part of an initiative by the Afghan government and ISAF to fight Taliban militants in remote areas of the war-torn country. An ISAF spokesman confirmed the incident in the Arghandab district. “We are aware of reports of a blast in the district,” he said without giving details. An ISAF statement said one of its soldiers was killed Saturday in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. The alliance neither disclosed the soldier's nationality nor a more precise location. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. “Two foreign invaders, their translator and two infamous local police commanders perished in a deadly bomb blast,” the militants said in an online statement. Ahamdi said four local policemen, including two commanders; three national police officers; an ISAF soldier; and interpreter were killed in the village of Kohak. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/NeQ8z Tags: Afghanistan, Bomb, NATO, Police Section: Central Asia, Latest News
