http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_re_as/afghan_securityKABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations (news - web sites) suspended road travel for its workers in parts of southern Afghanistan (news - web sites) after five policemen were wounded and a group of Afghan aid workers were tied up and beaten by unidentified attackers, a U.N. spokesman said Sunday.
The two separate attacks occurred last Tuesday in the Maywand district of Kandahar province, U.N. spokesman David Singh told reporters in Kabul.
In the first incident, attackers equipped with rocket launchers, grenades and heavy machine guns opened fire Tuesday on a police checkpoint, wounding five officers in a 45-minute gunfight.
Later the same night, attackers tied up 10 Afghan staff from the local aid group Coordination Humanitarian Assistance at their offices and "severely" beat them, Singh said.
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