10 Policemen Are Killed Across Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - Ten police officers died in violence across Afghanistan on Wednesday, including the district chief of a counterterrorism unit in Herat Province in the west of the country, officials said. Taliban insurgents ambushed the counterterrorism unit while it was on a night patrol in the Ghurian district of Herat, said Mohyaddin Noori, a spokesman for the Herat governor's office. The unit's chief and three others were killed. Herat is relatively secure, at least compared with more volatile and more Pashtun-dominated provinces in the south and east, and attacks by the Taliban are comparatively rare there. Ghurian district is in the west of the province, toward the Iranian border. Four policemen died in southern Helmand Province when explosives they had discovered earlier detonated while being loaded into their vehicle. Two other officers were wounded in the explosion. And in the city of Kunduz, in the northeast, two police officers died and three were wounded when their vehicle struck a land mine.