British and Afghan forces attack Taliban troops

British and Afghan forces attacked Taliban strongholds today after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern Afghan town, killing at least 19 militants, the governor’s spokesman said.

Some 200 militants, driving four-wheel drive vehicles, poured into the Helmand provincial town of Nawzad around noon yesterday and set up positions around a police compound where Afghan soldiers and police, along with British troops, were based, spokesman Ghulam Muhiddin said.