A fierce gunbattle between Afghan police and insurgents in Kandahar has left at least three police dead and several wounded.
The interior ministry said police came under fire when they surrounded a house in the southern city where two insurgents were said to be holed up. There was a plan to attack a nearby police station, officials said.
The district police commander was reported to be among the dead and two other officers were hurt.
Fighting broke out at about 0830 local time (0400 GMT) and continued for more than an hour, after police attempted to enter the building.
"Our police had intelligence about the presence of some terrorists in a house in District 1. Police besieged the house and ordered the terrorists to surrender, but they refused and started fighting," interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqi was quoted by AFP as saying.
"In the fighting, both terrorists including a well-known deaf Taliban commander known as Mullah Kar were killed."
Three policemen were killed, he said, contradicting an earlier report that four officers had been killed.
Local residents said the area had been sealed off by foreign forces and Afghan police late on Tuesday.
Mr Siddiqi said homemade bombs and other ammunition had been recovered from the house following the operation.
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