Fight for key Afghan city kills more than 100 police, soldiers

KABUL — More than 100 police officers and soldiers have been killed in the southeastern city of Ghazni in three days, a hospital official said Sunday, as fighting continued in the strategic town where Taliban insurgents have seized control of most neighborhoods.

The insurgents also have begun spreading into districts outside Ghazni, two of which fell to them overnight, according to reports from local residents and Afghan officials.

Baz Mohammad Hemat, director of the Ghazni Hospital, said by telephone that 113 bodies had been taken to the hospital, along with 142 wounded, most of them in uniform.