Militants kill six police, five medical workers in Afghanistan

  • 12/15/2022
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Kabul, Oct 12, SPA -- Militants killed six police andfive medical workers in separate attacks in southernAfghanistan, and President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday hebelieves the rebels are receiving support from the nation'sbooming drug trade. The police were killed by the militants who ambushed their convoy in mountains in Uruzgan province Tuesday, the second major attack on the fledgling force intwo days, local Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said. The attack on the medical workers occurred Wednesday nearKandahar city, said doctor Abdul Qadir, the director of Afghan Help DevelopmentServices, a local aid group that employed the five. Karzai made his comments about the violence in a pressconference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He said there was "cooperation between the drug trade andterrorism." "We will have terrorism attacking (us) ... for quite sometime," he warned.--SPA1146 Local Time 0846 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/295793

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