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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Toe tag for Taliban trio |
| 2004-05-25 |
| Three guerrillas from Afghanistan's ousted Taleban militia were killed on Monday in clashes with government forces in the southern province of Helmand, a local official said. Haji Mohammad Wali, spokesman for the governor of Helmand, said Afghan forces chased the guerrillas into hills around Yakchal, close to the border with Kandahar province, after the militants had ambushed government troops on Sunday. In the initial ambush, four soldiers and three guerrillas were wounded and a Taleban fighter was killed, he said. In a separate incident in the central province of Uruzgan, Taleban suspects launched an attack late on Sunday near the provincial capital of Tirin Kot. Taleban spokesman Haji Latif Hakimi said three soldiers were killed and one government vehicle destroyed. But a provincial security official countered that two civilians had been killed in the raid. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |