Off the wire
• 1st LD-Writethru: China to fully open elderly care market by 2020  • Gold price closes higher in Hong Kong  • Foreign exchange rates in Hong Kong  • Singapore stocks close 0.38 percent lower  • Foreign exchange rates in Singapore  • Hong Kong stocks close 0.28 pct lower  • 40 pct of young adults in U.S. live with family: analysis  • Cambodian-Chinese joint drill concludes successfully  • Hong Kong bans poultry products from S.E. Sweden  • Across China: Octogenarian builds porcelain palace in east China  
You are here: 　 Home

Taliban attack kills 3 police in Afghanistan's Kunduz province

Xinhua, December 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Khan Abad district of Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province claimed the lives of three police on Friday, senior district official Qudratullah Safi said.

The Taliban militants, according to the official, stormed a police checkpoint in Mullah Ghulam area of Khan Abad district on Friday morning, killing the checkpoint commander Abdul Jabbar along with two others on the spot.

Taliban militants also suffered casualties in the firefight that lasted for a while, the official added.

The relatively troubled Kunduz province has been the scene of increasing Taliban-led militancy over the past few years. Endit