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Nine Afghan police killed in shootout with US-hired guards
Kabul - A police chief in the restive southern Afghan province of Kandahar was among nine officers killed Monday in a gunbattle between Afghan police and US-hired private security guards, local officials said. Matiullah Qati and eight other police, i...
Posted : Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:14:41 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Asia (World)
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Kabul - A police chief in the restive southern Afghan province of Kandahar was among nine officers killed Monday in a gunbattle between Afghan police and US-hired private security guards, local officials said. Matiullah Qati and eight other police, including the head of the crime investigation department, were killed in the fighting in the prosecutor's office in the provincial capital, also called Kandahar, Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of the provincial council and brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told the German Press Agency dpa.
The circumstances surrounding the gunfire remained confused with government officials not commenting so far on what happened. Earlier, however, a government official told
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