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AFP, Kabul

Taliban-style bombings killed three Afghan policemen Saturday, officials said, also reporting that 17 other people, including a population census official, died in unrest a day earlier.

Two police officers were killed when a bomb planted in a road blew up their vehicle in the southern province of Ghazni, provincial spokesman Zia Wali told AFP, blaming the attack on Taliban. Three others were wounded, he said.

A third police officer was killed and another was wounded in a similar blast in southwestern province of Farah, regional police commander Khalilullah Ziayee said, also accusing Taliban.

Insurgents led by the Taliban movement that was ousted from government seven years ago have in recent weeks stepped up attacks on police, perhaps the weakest branch of the security forces.

More than three dozen Afghan policemen have been killed in attacks this month, according to an AFP tally.