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KABUL - Afghan police claimed on Sunday to have killed 120 suspected Taleban terrorists fighters in southern Kandahar province over the weekend, while coalition forces said they arrested 11 terrorists, including a Taleban leader, in the eastern region.
Afghan and coalition forces gave contradictory reports on the death toll of terrorists insurgents at the weekend in the southern province of Kandahar. Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib said their forces, supported by US-led coalition troops, killed 120 terrorists insurgents in two operations southwest of the city.
Twenty terrorists militants were killed in Arghandab district and another 100 terrorists were killed in Zherai district in two separate operations that began late Saturday and was ongoing, Saqib told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Dozens of terrorists' insurgentss bodies had been left to rot on the battlefields.
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Meanwhile, the US military said in a statement that Afghan and coalition forces killed at least 25 suspected terrorists insurgents in a firefight southwest of Kandahar City, the provincial capital. Using intelligence information, the combined forces attacked two compounds which comprised seven buildings and contained several terrorist insurgent leaders who had been responsible for the several attacks in the province, the statement said.
 Upon entering the first compound, the terrorists insurgents attacked Afghan and coalition forces with small-arms and machinegun fire, it said, adding that the ground forces requested close air support. During the ground engagement and air assault, 11 terrorists rebels were killed. A splodydope suicide bomber also blew himself up during the engagement in the first compound but caused no casualties among the joint forces.
The forces killed another 14 Taleban terrorists fighters after coalition aircraft dropped bombs in the second compound, it added.
Around 1,000 Taleban terrorists fighters were killed during an operation, dubbed Medusa, in the same areas of the province last year in which the terrorists insurgents were driven out of the area. But according to coalition forces intelligence, local residents had been seen leaving the area for the last few weeks and terrorist insurgent commanders were attempting to re-establish their control in the area.
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 Also on Sunday, Afghan and coalition forces patrol came under small arms fire by terrorists insurgents in Shah Walikot, district of Kandahar province, the military said. The combined forces returned fire and killed an estimated number of six terrorists rebels, the statement said, adding the incident happened near the area where on August 28 over 100 Taleban terrorists fighters were killed in fighting with joint forces. One coalition soldier was wounded in the firefight, it said.
Afghan and coalition forces also claimed to have killed several dozens of terrorists insurgents in the neighbouring province Helmand, where Taleban are most entrenched, since Friday.
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However, it is very difficult to verify independently the number of Taleban death toll, as the areas where clashes take place are remote and inaccessible for the media.
Coalition also said in another statement that they have arrested eleven suspected terrorists insurgents including Mohammad Ali Jan, a insurgent financier in Sabari District of eastern Khost province on Sunday morning. One more terrorist insurgent was killed by in an Afghan and coalition forces operation against militants associated with the Al Qaeda network on Sunday morning in Paktika province, a separate US military statement said.
Three Afghan national army soldiers were killed and two other were wounded when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Sperwan area of Panjwayi district of Kandahar province on Saturday, defence ministry said in a statement. Three other army soldiers were wounded, when a rocket fired by insurgents, hit their military compound in Seyuri district of Zabul province on Saturday, the statement said.
More than 4,300 people - most of them terrorists insurgents - have been killed in Taleban-led violence so far this year. 
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