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British soldier among 23 killed in Afghan unrest

AFP, Kabul
A British soldier with Nato forces was killed yesterday in southern Afghanistan, officials said, as 12 policemen and 10 Taliban rebels died in different incidents elsewhere in the war-wracked country.
The violence comes as rebels loyal to the ousted Taliban militia have stepped up attacks in recent weeks, turning June into the deadliest month for the 70,000-strong international force based in Afghanistan since 2001.
"An Isaf (International Security Assistance Force) soldier died in an explosion while on a security patrol with an Afghan National Army unit," the alliance force said in a statement earlier Sunday in Kabul.
The British defence ministry in London said the soldier was part of a checkpoint team that had gone to investigate reports of a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a civilian aircraft at the airport.
His death took to 109 the number of foreign soldiers killed here this year, according to an AFP tally based on reporting. Forty-two of them have died since the start of the month, the AFP count shows.
In a separate incident, about 150 militants stormed a government building in southwestern Farah province early Sunday, killing four police and losing seven of their own fighters, deputy provincial governor, Mohammad Younus Rasouli told AFP.
Five other officers and three rebels were injured in the clashes, which started shortly after midnight.
A district chief was also slightly
injured during the battle and a progovernment tribal elder was captured by militants, Rasouli said.
Separately, Afghan security forces backed by international troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants in Wardak province early Sunday, Mohammad Aleem Kohstani, a regional police commander, told AFP
"Three Taliban have been killed so far. The operation is underway," Kohstani said, adding that security forces had surrounded a cave believed to be a Taliban hideout.
The operation in Wardak was launched after violence from a Taliban-led insurgency spiked in recent weeks. Three US-led soldiers were killed in a bomb blast in Wardak on Friday.
"The operation has been designed to root out Taliban from the area," Kohstani said.
Separately, Taliban rebels killed eight policemen in an ambush in Faryab province, the interior ministry said.
"I can confirm that eight border policemen were killed today in an ambush in Dawlat Abad district, in Faryab province," Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
He blamed the attack on the "enemies of peace and stability", which usually refers to theTaliban.
The Pentagon warned Friday that the insurgency was likely to expand its influence into new areas such as the north and west, which have so far remained quiet compared with the country's south and east.