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Taliban kidnaps 50 policemen

TALIBAN insurgents abducted around 50 off-duty Afghan policemen in an ambush in the volatile Chapa Dara district in northeastern Afghanistan.

Mon, 28 Mar, 2011 - 01:00

The policemen were in civilian clothes and had no weapons with them.

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