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KANDAHAR, April 15 (Reuters) Forty-one Taliban fighters and six Afghan policemen were killed in a fierce battle in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said yesterday. Foreign forces suffered no casualties in Friday's battle pitting Taliban fighters against Afghan and foreign forces in the Zare Dasht district of Kandahar province, Kandahar Governor Assadullah Khalid said.

"Forty-one Taliban were killed in the fighting, mostly as a result of air bombing. Six policemen, including the Zare Dasht police chief were also killed," Khalid told a news conference in Kandahar city.

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