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Taliban Attacks,
Violence in Afghanistan claims 30 lives
Pakistan
Times
Foreign Desk Report
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan):
Thirty people including
chief of district government and a judge were killed in the latest wake of
attacks in Afghanistan.
Militants from the fundamentalist Islamic group, ousted by US-led forces in
late 2001, attacked a district in Helmand province, 560 kilometers (350
miles) south of Kabul, early Monday, a provincial government spokesman said.
"Taliban attacked Washer district at 2:30 am and killed the district
governor Mullah Sakhi and one policeman," Mohammed Wali told.
"Eleven Taliban were killed in the exchange of fire and their bodies are
still lying in the area. Three Taliban were wounded," he said.
Late on Sunday at least one policeman was killed and two were wounded when a
checkpoint on the highway between Kabul and the main southern city of
Kandahar was attacked in southern Zabul province.
Taliban fighters
Uruzgani said seven Taliban fighters were also killed but their bodies were
not left at the scene. The Taliban often take the bodies of fallen comrades
with them.
A highway policeman was killed in an attack on the Kandahar-Herat road in
the western province of Farah early Sunday and four others were wounded,
three critically, said Herat police spokesman Abdul Raof Ahmadi.
The three US troops were slightly wounded on Sunday when their vehicle hit
an improvised bomb during a patrol in the troubled province of Paktika, near
the Pakistani border. Four US soldiers have been killed in the area this
month.
The Targets
Two United Nations vehicles were targeted by improvised bombs in the
southeastern province of Khost on Sunday and Monday, said provincial
security director Sidaq Tarak Khail.
Up to 20 Taliban militants were killed by US warplanes and gunship
helicopters in Helmand on Sunday, the US military said.
According to spokesman of Hilmand governor, three were shot dead including a
judge, a secret police official and employee of provincial education
department by unknown attackers.●
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