KANDAHAR, Nov 13: Taliban killed three policemen after kidnapping them in a volatile southern province, an official said on Sunday, in the latest spate of fresh violence in Afghanistan.

The trio were kidnapped from their vehicle while travelling in a district of Helmand province on Saturday night and then were shot dead, Haji Mohammad Wali, a spokesman for Helmand’s governor said.

A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf had claimed responsibility for the attack.

The US military said it had no reports of casualties in response to another claim by Yousuf — that Taliban fighters had killed five US soldiers in a clash in the southern province of Zabul, another province in the south.

The Helmand incident was the latest in a series of attacks.

—Reuters