KANDAHAR, June 30: Militants kidnapped an Afghan security worker, while three Taliban rebels were killed and eight were arrested in southern Afghanistan, police and officials said on Friday.

The guard employed by USPI, a private US security firm, was abducted on Thursday in the southern province of Ghazni, which has seen frequent Taliban attacks, provincial police chief Tafsir Khan said.

During a hunt for the kidnappers police detained six men for suspected involvement in the kidnapping, Khan said, adding that there was no news on the fate of the security worker.

The Taliban have threatened to target Afghan nationals working for foreign military or civilian companies.

Meanwhile, two suspected Taliban fighters were killed and four others were injured, also on Thursday, after they attacked a police building in neighbouring Zabul province, police chief Noor Mohammad Paktin said.

In Zabul’s neighbouring province of Kandahar US-led and Afghan forces killed one Taliban fighter and detained eight others in a raid—AFP