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2020-11-25 Afghanistan
Kid Took Mortar Shell for Toy Dies with Father
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Baghlan province say a father and son were killed and two other children were maimed when a mortar shell went kaboom! in the Khenjan district of the province.

A front man for the Baghlan governor, Zarmina Amani, told Khaama Press, that a man and his child were killed and two other children were maimed in a mortar shell explosion in the Khenjan district of the province.

Amani adds that this incident occurs when the children of this family bring home a mortar shell mistaken for toy and after hitting the shell with stones, the blast occurred.

Baghlan is located in the northeast of the country and is one of the key provinces connecting the eight northern provinces with the center of Afghanistan (Kabul).

This province is one of the most insecure provinces in the country where Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters have a large presence.

On the other hand, MoD reports that in Yakhchal village of Panjwai District, Kandahar, three Talibs were killed and three others were maimed.

Two other Taliban forces of Evil were reportedly killed while planting roadside kabooms in Zherai district of Kandahar province.

According to MoD’s bulletin, the group of Taliban fighters was attacked by Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the Zari district of Balkh province yesterday.

In this incident, six Taliban forces of Evil were killed and four others were maimed in the airstrikes.

This comes as MoD reports a major Taliban commander was arrested in Pashton Zarghon district of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province. He was involved in massive insurgency operations in the region. Afghan commandos detained the commander as he was planning to attack ANA outposts.
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