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 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A purported Taliban statement demanded the release of a number of the group's fighters and the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan in exchange for the freedom of two kidnapped French aid workers.
Separately, suspected Taliban militants ambushed a police patrol in eastern Afghanistan in a clash that left five militants and one police officer dead, while NATO-led troops shot and killed a suspected militant and wounded another in the south, officials said.
The Taliban has claimed it abducted a French man and woman and three Afghans from the aid group Terre d'Enfance who disappeared April 3, in the southwestern Nimroz province.
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