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At least nine Afghan police have been killed in an apparent shootout with private Afghan security contractors at a government office in Kandahar. The provincial police chief and head of the criminal investigations department were among the dead, according to a local official.

Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of Kandahar provincial council, said a group of Afghan contractors who provide security for foreign troops stationed in the country's volatile south forced their way into the office of the provincial attorney general Monday morning.

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