SHAJOY, Afghanistan, March 22 (SPA) - Afghan police backed by U.S. troops killed three Taliban fighters and captured three more in a 40-minute gunbattle in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. The firefight erupted after some 40 Afghan police officers, backed by a small team of U.S. mentors entered a village in the Shajoy district of Zabul province. Taliban fighters fired on the troops before retreating to a nearby hill on motorcycles. At the end of the 40-minute battle, three Taliban were killed and three were captured, one of them wounded.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/538779