KANDAHAR, Feb 4: A district governor and two policemen were killed by Taliban rebels fleeing a battle that left 25 dead in Afghanistan, while a bomb killed two civilians on Saturday, an official said.

A Taliban commander was meanwhile killed in a clash late Friday with police, police said.

Taliban rebels retreating from a clash with police in southern Helmand province’s Sangin district attacked the district headquarters in nearby Musa Qala on Friday, provincial deputy governor Amir Mohammad Akhundzada said.

The militants killed district chief Abdul Qodus and one of his police guards, he said.

They also killed a policeman as they stormed through adjoining Nawzad district, he said.

A purported Taliban spokesman confirmed the fighting in Helmand but said the clashes in Nawzad and Musa Qala did not involve fleeing rebels but reinforcements.—AFP