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| 18 Taliban, two Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan |
| 2007-09-28 |
| Taliban fighters attacked a military base in the south of Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two Danish soldiers, the Danish army said on Thursday. A third Dane was wounded, it said in a statement. The Danish contingent with the 40,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) numbers around 400 soldiers and is primarily deployed in southern Helmand province under British command. Including the latest deaths, 175 international troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year alone, most of them in combat operations against Taliban militants. One of those, a soldier from the separate US-led coalition, was killed on Tuesday in the south during one of two major battles with the Taliban that also left nearly 170 militants dead. Officials in eastern Kunar province on the border with Pakistan said that ISAF forces had carried out an operation overnight that killed at least 18 Taliban. “There have been some civilian casualties from the operation but I don’t have the exact figure,” provincial spokesman Zarghon Shah Khaliqyar said. People who said they were wounded in the operation were treated in a hospital in the provincial capital Asadabad, and said around eight civilians were killed. Six policemen killed in Qalat: Taliban militants attacked a police post near the southern town of Qalat on Wednesday and killed six policemen, provincial police chief Mohammad Yaqob said. Three policemen were wounded. Taliban insurgents said on Thursday they were holding four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) missing in Afghanistan, but would release them soon. “Our mujahideen detained the Red Cross workers in Wardak province without knowing they were ICRC staff,” said a Taliban spokesman who declined to be named. “We have nothing against the Red Cross and we are going to release them soon.” |
| Posted by:Fred |