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| Afghan clash 'kills police chief' | Afghan clash 'kills police chief' |
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| The provincial police chief and at least eight other police have been killed in a clash with US-trained Afghan guards in Kandahar, reports say. | |
| The clash is said to have erupted after the guards, who are employed by US special forces, tried to remove an Afghan prisoner from a civic building. | The clash is said to have erupted after the guards, who are employed by US special forces, tried to remove an Afghan prisoner from a civic building. |
| The situation remains confused, with Kandahar city closed off. | |
| Kandahar province is a Taliban stronghold, but there is no suggestion the Taliban were involved. | |
| It is a key battleground in the fight between Taliban insurgents and the Afghan government and coalition forces. | It is a key battleground in the fight between Taliban insurgents and the Afghan government and coalition forces. |
| Gun battle | |
| The guards are said to have tried to free one of their colleagues who was being kept prisoner at the prosecutor's office in Kandahar City. It is not clear why he had been imprisoned. | |
| The BBC in Afghanistan has been told that what began as a fist fight with police turned into a gun battle. | |
| Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of Kandahar's provincial council and a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, confirmed the incident. | |
| "The police chief for Kandahar, the head of the city's criminal department and seven other police were killed in the clash," he told Reuters news agency. |