KABUL, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Taliban insurgents fighting the Afghan government have destroyed another mobile phone tower in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a local official said Saturday.

    "The enemies of the country raided the room of guards of a mobile phone antenna late Friday night in Daman district of Kandahar and set on fire the switch board of the antenna, power generator and items inside the room," Mohammad Rasoul, police chief of the district, told Xinhua via phone.

    He said that the militants tied the hands of the guards and abandoned them without harming in the area.

    It is the 10th mobile phone tower that has been destroyed by the Taliban since the outfit gave ultimatum for mobile telecommunication companies to stop nighttime signals in southern Afghanistan's Taliban-held areas late last month.

    The Taliban had warned all the mobile phone service firms operating in Afghanistan to shut down their signals from 5 p.m. to7 a.m. citing the ground that Afghan and foreign forces were using cellular phones signals to track down insurgents during nighttime.