KANDAHAR, May 11: Four policemen and a dozen Taliban were killed in fresh violence in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.

Ten militants were killed when war planes bombed a village in the southern province of Helmand, a district governor said.

The air strike was in Sangin district, where provincial authorities said 21 civilians were killed in coalition bombing raids targeting the Taliban late on Tuesday.

Afghan and coalition forces estimate a “significant number of Taliban fighters” were killed, the US-led coalition said in a statement on Friday. It said there were civilian casualties but the number was being investigated.—AFP