Afghan blasts,bullets kill 14: officials

The ministry said the police were on patrol 8220;inspecting the opium fields8221;.

8220;Planting mines by the enemies of Afghanistan indicates that there is close link between drug traders and the terrorists,8221; it said.

Afghanistan produces 90 per cent of the world8217;s illicit drug supplies from its poppy crops which the government has a policy of eradicating.

Another three policemen were killed and two wounded in a similar incident in central Wardak province,just south of the capital Kabul,the ministry said.

The ministry blamed the attacks on the 8220;enemies of Afghanistan8221; 8212; a term authorities use to refer to the remnants of the Taliban,who are leading an insurgency after the 2001 US-led invasion ousted them from power.

Yesterday,three other policemen were killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Khost province near the border with Pakistan,said senior police official Sher Ahmad Kochi.