Police in Uruzgan were dispatched into the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, where police and militants battled for several hours, Hemat said.
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Her other relatives, Hemat Landa, 40, Chamkh Singh, 42, Kamaljit Singh, 33, and a 16-year-old who cannot be named, are also charged with kidnapping Harjinder Singh.
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On Monday, militants attacked a border police post between Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces in the south, killing three police officers and wounding seven, according to Uruzgan's provincial police chief, Juma Khan Hemat.