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Taliban insurgents ambushed the convoy of a district chief in southern Afghanistan and killed his 20 bodyguards, said Thursday a funciionario.

Mullah Salaam, district chief of Musa Qala in Helmand province and that time was a member of the ousted Taliban, emerged unscathed from the attack occurred on Wednesday against his caravan, said provincial spokesman.


The spokesman Dawood Ahmadi said two of the attackers were killed in a confrontation that occurred after the ambush in Helmand, a stronghold of Taliban and one of the main drug-producing regions of Afghanistan, the main supplier of heroin in the world.

Taliban group nobody could be reached immediately for comment on the matter and the Interior Ministry in Kabul confirmed the deaths of 20 guards in the payroll of the ministry.


This has been one of the bloodiest attacks against security forces in several months.

The ministry said a woman also was killed in the attack and added that it is expected to give details of the incident.


Afghanistan suffers one of its worst violence since 2005 when the Taliban movement began to regroup after being ousted in the invasion led by the United States after the attacks of September 11, 2001.