SPIN BOLDAK, April 29: At least three Afghan soldiers were killed and two wounded on Tuesday in a series of rocket and gun attacks by Taliban fighters in the south of the country, an Afghan official said.

The Taliban attacked military posts, an ammunition depot, the district commissioner’s office and other government installations, district commissioner of Spin Boldak, Sayed Fazaldin Agha, said.

Mr Agha told newsmen that small groups of the Taliban, wearing Afghan forces uniform, carried out a series of coordinated attacks early in the morning, hitting targets inside and outside Spin Boldak, the Afghan town near the Pakistani border.

Residents of the town said the fighting involving heavy machine-gun fire and rockets.

In Pakistan, residents of Chaman, standing on their rooftops saw flames rising from Spin Boldak about 10km to the northwest, witnesses said.

Mr Agha said Afghan forces had surrounded a village where the Taliban were believed to have fled after the attacks.

The Taliban remnants and members of the Al Qaeda network have stepped up attacks against Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. —Reuters