KABUL, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Two border policemen were killed and eight others injured on Monday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the eastern Khost province of Afghanistan, an official told Xinhua.

    The vehicle was attacked at 1:00 p.m. local time on Kabul-Khost highway in Nadirshahkot district, said General Khalilullah, a commander of the provincial border police.

    Earlier on Monday, two suicide bombers were killed when their explosive-laden car apparently went off pre-maturely in Rig Ration of Khost.

    Khost, a mountainous region, has been a hotbed of Taliban, al-Qaeda and other anti-government insurgents.

    Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgence this year, Afghanistan has plunged into the worst spate of violence since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001.

    Over 24,00 persons, mostly Taliban rebels, have been killed in this Central Asian country in the past nine months. Enditem