KABUL, May 8: Taliban militants ambushed a patrolling police vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two policemen and losing one of their own fighters, an official and the group said. Four rebels were also wounded in the fighting in Shajoy district of Zabul province, provincial police chief Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhil said.

“We lost two policemen in this morning’s fighting. We killed one Taliban too,” he said.

A purported spokesman for the Taliban, Yousuf Ahmadi, said the movement had carried out the attack and admitted one of its fighters was killed.

“We ambushed the police. We killed several of them but we lost one fighter,” he said, denying that four rebels were wounded.

In another attack on Monday two small bombs exploded in the centre of the eastern city of Jalalabad.

The blasts caused no damage or casualties, officials said.—AFP