Kandahar: A police chief says clashes in southern Afghanistan have killed 13 Taliban militants and two policemen.
Helmand provincial police Chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal says six other officers were wounded in the clashes. Andiwal says 10 militants were killed in Helmand's Marja district after they attacked a police checkpoint late yesterday and killed two officers. Five other officers were wounded in the attack.
Andiwal says three militants died in another attack on police in the same region yesterday that left one police officer wounded.
Southern Afghanistan is the centre of the Taliban-led insurgency.
At least 1,200 people, mostly militants, have died in insurgency-related violence in 2008 according to a tally by The Associated Press.
