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Taliban assassinate Afghan police, battle NATO
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KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban fighters assassinated a senior Afghan police officer, his three bodyguards and a female relative on Saturday, leaving only the woman's three-month-old baby alive.

"They were definitely Taliban. No one can carry out such a cowardly ambush except the Taliban," said Sayed Agha Saqib, the police chief of the southwestern province of Farah.

Suspected Taliban also assassinated a district police chief in neighbouring Nimroz province, killing three of his bodyguards. Three attackers were also killed, police said.

The Taliban and other insurgent and criminal groups have been stepping up attacks on Afghan and foreign forces, plunging the country into its bloodiest period since the hardline Islamist Taliban were toppled in late 2001.
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