Taliban kill 10 cops in Afghanistan

At least 10 policemen were killed in clashes with Taliban fighters in the central Afghan province of Wardak, officials said yesterday, amid fighting to wrest control of arterial highways a day after Taliban fighters blew up bridges. The Taliban set fire to a government building in Wardak's Sayeed Abad district and killed the district police chief along with nine other policemen on Saturday night, a senior police official said.