Kabul, Oct 29 (AFP) Taliban insurgents, some wearingnight-vision goggles, killed 22 Afghan policemen in separateattacks on checkpoints over the weekend in the latest blow tothe country's beleaguered security forces.
Militants wearing the googles launched a pre-dawn assaulton a police post in Khan Abad district in the northernprovince of Kunduz today and killed 13 officers, saidprovincial police chief Abdul Hamid Hamidi.
Only one policeman survived the attack, he toldreporters.
The attackers destroyed the checkpoint and stole aHumvee, according to district governor Hayatullah Amiri.
Yesterday Taliban fighters killed nine policemen andwounded two others stationed at checkpoints in Ghazni, thecapital of the southeastern province of the same name, saidprovincial governor's spokesman Mohammad Arif Noori.
Twelve of the militants were killed and four wounded,Noori said.
The Taliban claimed the attacks in statements to media.
The insurgents have stepped up attacks on securityinstallations as they seek to demoralise police and troops andsteal equipment to fuel the insurgency.
The militants have acquired "dozens" of armoured Humveesand pickup trucks in recent years, defence ministry deputyspokesman Mohammad Radmanesh told AFP recently.
Some of those vehicles have been used in suicide attackson police and military bases with devastating effect.
Afghan forces have suffered soaring casualties sinceNATO forces ended their combat mission in late 2014. (AFP)UZM.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.
