*KABUL – At least 16 police were killed and two were wounded in clasheswith the Taliban in northern Kunduz province on Monday night, localofficials confirmed Tuesday.*
The clashes took place in the Ali Abad district after the Taliban attackedsecurity checkpoints, the provincial police chief Abdul Rashid Bashir said.
“The Taliban have also sustained casualties in the clashes, along with thelocal police,” Bashir said.
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A soldier who survived the attack said: “Nine of my colleagues weremartyred and another was injured. I fought alone for an hour with theTaliban and the reinforcements arrived for us around 3:30 am.”
