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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents attacked a police checkpoint north of the city early Monday, killing 11 police officers and burning their vehicles before vanishing into the night.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack by telephone.
In a separate attack Sunday west of Kandahar, two British soldiers were killed in an explosion and two others were wounded, the British Defense Ministry announced in London.
