30 Taliban militants killed in Afghan operations: gov’t
KABUL: (MEP) – Thirty Taliban militants have been killed and 22 others injured in separate Afghan provinces since Saturday morning, the Interior Ministry said Sunday, Xinhua reported.
“The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and Coalition Forces conducted several cleanup operations in Baghlan, Kunduz, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces, killing 21 armed Taliban and wounding 20 others. Nine armed Taliban were arrested by the ANSF,” the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates.
They also found and seized weapons, the statement said, without saying if there were any casualties on the side of security forces.
The Afghan police also found and defused 21 anti-vehicle mines in northern Takhar province.
In addition, nine militants were killed and two wounded in an army operations in Bala Buluk district of western Farah province Saturday evening, an army spokesman in the province Raouf Rahmani told Xinhua.
The Taliban insurgent group, which has been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, has yet to make comments.
On Saturday, two personnel of Afghan Border Police (ABP) were killed in a Taliban attack in Muri Chaq area of Balamurghab district of western Badghis province, an ABP commander Hajji Mohammad said.
