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Afghan conflicts kill 36, mostly militants in 2 days
KABUL, Nov 7, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – Up to 36 people mostly anti-government
militants have been killed and more than three dozen others sustained
injuries elsewhere in the conflict-riddled country over the past two days,
officials said Wednesday.
A series of fighting between security forces and Taliban outfit in Qul
area of Shinwari district in the eastern Parwan province have left 11
insurgents dead since Tuesday night, provincial police spokesman Mohammad
Salim Nuri said.
According to Nuri, four more insurgents sustained injuries.
Similarly, in Pashton Kot district of the northern Faryab province, five
insurgents were killed and three others wounded as the fighting aircrafts
struck Taliban hideous late Tuesday, said Mohammad Hanif Rezae the spokesman
for national army in the northern region.
Moreover, fighting between security forces and the Taliban fighters in Deh
Yak district of western Farah province on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning
left five Taliban fighters including their local commander Mullah Naser and
two policemen dead and 11 others including two police personnel wounded,
according to Muhebullah Moheb, the provincial police spokesman said.
Ten more militants, according to an army spokesman Ghulam Hazrat Karimi
have been killed in Dand-e-Ghori district of the northern Baghlan province
and 15 others injured since Tuesday morning.
Taliban militants, however, attacked Jaghori district in the eastern
Ghazni province on Wednesday morning killing three security personnel and
injuring five others.
Both the Taliban and government forces, according to local observers have
been doing their best to gain more ground and consolidate positions ahead of
snowfall in the mountainous country.
BSS/XINHUA/FI/ 1836 hrs