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| 7 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan |
| 2008-07-24 |
| (Xinhua) -- Seven Taliban rebels were killed by Afghan police in two separate battles in the unrest southern provinces, officials said here on Wednesday. Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, the police chief of Helmand province, told Xinhua that police on Tuesday evening killed the Taliban militants' ambush on several checkpoints in Lashkar Gha district, the provincial capital, killing five militants. "The fighting last for two hours," Andiwal said, adding "one Afghan soldier and the other police were injured in the clash." Meanwhile, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, the purported Taliban spokesman told Xinhua via phone from an unknown hideout that the outfit took responsibility for the attack but he denied any casualties on Taliban side. In the other incident, police on Tuesday night engaged and eliminated three Taliban insurgents while on patrol in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, the provincial police chief Juma Gul Humat said. "No police were killed or injured," he added. Afghanistan has witnessed a surge of violence and riot throughout its territory over the past months while militancy and conflict left more than 2,300 people including over 700 civilians dead so far this year. |
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