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More news from Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Feb 21

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:56 GMT

Source: reuters // Reuters

Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0845 GMT on Tuesday.

HELMAND - Insurgents beheaded four civilians they believed to be spying for the government in the Washir district of southern Helmand province, the regional governor said in a statement.

KABUL - A man wearing the uniform of the Afghan National Police killed a service member of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said in a statement. It gave no other details.

KABUL - A roadside bomb killed four civilians including a child in the Shah Wali Kot district of the southern Kandahar province on Sunday, ISAF said in a statement.

KABUL - Afghan security forces and foreign troops killed two insurgents, wounded three and detained one more in Kabul and Logar provinces over the past 24 hours, the interior ministry said in a statement.

(Compiled by Kabul bureau)

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