Afghanistan has mobilised 7,000 police officers in the capital Kabul ahead of Monday's Independence Day celebrations after a wave of violence killed at least 60 people in a series of clashes across the country's south.
In the worst incident government officials said five private security guards and 28 Taliban militants were killed near the town of Qalat in Zabul province in a battle that lasted several hours. In Kandahar province a roadside bomb hit a police jeep killing 10 officers. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence in London said that British NATO troops have been involved in the deaths of four Afghan civilians in southern Afghanistan, adding it has opened an inquiry into the incident.
(Deutsche Welle)
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