Three police officers were killed late Saturday as suspected Taliban attacked a police vehicle carrying ballot boxes to Uruzgan's provincial capital Trinkot, the city police confirmed.

"The ballot boxes were taking from Chorak district to Trinkot when armed Taliban ambushed the vehicle, killing three policemen escorting the car," Rozi Khan told Xinhua.

The former Taliban remnants, who vowed to derail the presidential elections have fired several rockets in Kabul and other cities since Saturday morning but the polling process was held as per schedule and ended at 6 PM local time (13:30 GMT).

In another incident, eight policemen were killed Thursday between Kandahar city and Miannashin district when their jeep hit a mine.

Two voters were killed and two others injured when the vehicle they were in hit a mine on their way home after voting in Nishin district, Kandahar province.

Uruzgan and the neighboring provinces of Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul have been the scene of increasing militancy for the last 10 months in which over 400 civilians, US and Afghan troops as well as aid workers had been killed.

(Xinhua News Agency October 10, 2004)