At least 20 killed in Afghanistan as election results expected

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Kabul, 10 Ramadan, 1435, 07 July, 2014, SPA - - At least five police, five civilians and 10 militants were reported dead following separate Taliban attacks and a government airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said Monday, according to dpa. "Armed men ambushed a police vehicle in Farsi district at 6 am [0130 GMT]" in the western province of Herat, "killing district police chief Shir Ahmad and other four police officers," said the province's police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi. Shir Ahmad's vehicle was hit with a rocket, he said. One police officer was also injured. In Chahar Dara district of northern province of Kunduz, 10 Taliban were killed and nine wounded by an airstrike called in to defend a police checkpoint that came under attack from a group of militants late Sunday, provincial police spokesman Saeed Sarwar Husaini said Monday. --SPA 12:06 LOCAL TIME 09:06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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