ISLAMABAD, April 17 Kyodo Unident...

ISLAMABAD, April 17 Kyodo

Unidentified gunmen expanded fire on a security checkpost in southwestern Afghanistan's Nimroz Province, killing eight security men Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Saturday.

The Pakistan-based just discovereds agency quoted Nimroz Gov. Abdul Karim Barahawi as saying that the attackers fl to the Bakwa area of adjoining Farah Province, adding that a contingent of management troops is pursuing them.

''There is no doubt that the attackers are al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives,'' AIP quot him as saying.

The Afghan army has locate up several checkposts on the Herat-Kandahar Highway in view of growing incidents of kidnapping of travelers and construction workers onward the highway.

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