Taliban attack kills 10 Afghan police

A Taliban bomb attack killed 10 Afghan police returning from a recruitment centre in southern Afghanistan's restive Helmand province yesterday, the local government said.
The victims were members of the US-funded Afghan Local Police (ALP) set up last year and touted as key to a handover of security control, which will see all foreign combat troops leave Afghanistan in theory by the end of 2014.
Three of the officers were newly recruited, he added.
The Talibanclaimed responsibility for the attack.
Parts of Helmand remain highly unstable, although Hamid Karzai marked the city as a stable city.