KABUL, Nov 4: A bomb planted by Taliban rebels killed four policemen in Afghanistan on Sunday while various security operations against extremist insurgents left around 60 rebels dead, officials said.

The policemen were driving in the southeastern province of Ghazni when a bomb ripped through their vehicle, provincial police commander Alishah Ahmadzai said.

The interior ministry announced meanwhile that police working with international soldiers had killed 25 Taliban on Saturday in an operation in the troubled province of Uruzgan, which has seen days of heavy fighting.

“The bodies of the dead were left at the battlefield,” the ministry said in a statement.

The coalition announced separately that its troops, teamed up with Afghan forces, had repelled an attack Friday on a military base in Uruzgan.—AFP