Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 10, SPA -- Suspected Taliban gunmenambushed a border patrol in the desert near the frontierwith Pakistan, killing 10 Afghan soldiers and beheadingthem all, a provincial governor said Sunday. The victims were part of a 25-member patrol in southernHelmand province that was attacked late Saturday bymilitants driving four four-wheel-drive pickups, saidprovincial Gov. Sher Mohammed Aghunzada. "The Taliban cut the heads off all the soldiers who werekilled," he was quoted as saying by The Associated Press. Aghunzada said the dead soldiers' bodies had been recovered.--SPA1138 Local Time 0838 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/275785
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