Taliban kill 10 Afghan police in insider attack: officials

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KANDAHAR: A rogue Afghan policeman killed 10 of his colleagues in the southern province of Uruzgan early Tuesday, officials said, the second insider attack on government forces in a week.

“This policeman first drugged 10 of his colleagues and then shot them dead,” Dost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for Uruzgan’s governor, told AFP, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.