Roadside bomb kills four Afghan policemen

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KHOST, Afghanistan, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed four Afghan policemen and wounded two on Thursday in the southern province of Khost, a senior police official said.

Khost, on the border with Pakistan's troubled Waziristan tribal agencies, is one of the main centres of activity of Taliban guerrillas fighting a three-year-old insurgency against government and U.S.-led forces.

"A remote control bomb blast in Ismail Khail Mandozai district killed four people and wounded two," Colonel Mohammad Zaman Khan, deputy police chief of Khost province, told Reuters. Al of the casualties were policemen and a district police chief was among the wounded, he said.

On Monday, security forces in Khost asked for support from U.S. forces against a militant nest, and seven rebels were killed by U.S. artillery fire.

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