War News for Tuesday, January 03, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, January 2nd.


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Reported security incidents
#1: A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle killed four civilians and a police officer in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar city on Tuesday, police said. Gen. Abul Razaq, Kandahar provincial police chief, said the attack also wounded 16 people, including three police officers and six children. The bomber detonated his explosives at a police checkpoint, he said.

A suicide bomber on a motorbike attacked an Afghan police patrol in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, killing a girl and injuring a dozen people, officials said. The attacker drove into several police in Kandahar city, the capital with of the province with the same name, police chief General Abdul Razzaq said.

#2: A bomb exploded in the basement of a building on the busy Arbab Road of Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The chief of Khyber Teaching Hospital said it had received 24 injured victims

#3: A mortar shell was also fired at a busy market in Khyber, one of seven tribal districts near the Afghan border. District official Rehman Shah said three people were killed and another three injured in the attack.

#4: According to local authorities in north-eastern Afghanistan, at least two Taliban militants were killed following armed clashes in Kapisa province. The officials further added, the incident took place in Nejrab district of Kapisa province and at least four other militants were also detained during the incident. Nejrab district security chief Ata Mohammad Nazari on Tuesday said, the clashes between the militants and Afghan security forces started after the Taliban militants ambushed a convoy of the Afghan National Army.