Suspected Taliban Attack Police Station

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By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan - Just hours after a deadly raid on a police station that left 22 people dead, suspected Taliban attacked another police compound in southeast Afghanistan (news - web sites), setting it ablaze and taking four policemen hostage, officials said Monday.

The latest attack took place Sunday night at Tarway, a village in Paktika province a few miles from the Pakistan border, provincial police chief Daulat Khan said.

"There were several hundred of them," Khan said of the assailants. "They set the police station on fire, took four of our men and fled to Pakistan."

It was not possible to independently confirm the details of the attack. Other policemen who were in the police station in Tarway fled the scene and the remoteness of the area made it impossible to contact authorities.

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