Afghanistan Bombings Kill 14

 Jill Langlois | Global Post |Two bombings — one overnight and another early Monday morning — killed at least 14 people in southern Afghanistan.

The first blast hit Zabul Province late Sunday night, killing 11 people and wounding another 20.

Local officials said the dead included a senior police official, two policemen and eight civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing.

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Taliban Abducts Afghan Policemen After Drugging Them

Radio Free Europe | Taliban militants have reportedly abducted 12 local policemen after poisoning their food in southern Afghanistan.

Ghulam Sakhi Rogh Lewani, police chief of the southern Zabul Province, said on July 25 that the incident happened in the province's remote Shahjoi district. He said the Taliban militants approached the post posing as guests and apparently mixed drugs into the food the policemen had prepared for themselves.

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