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| Several Taliban killed in failed Khost attack |
| 2004-09-04 |
| Several Taliban fighters were killed in a firefight with Afghan security forces in Khost, the US military said on Friday. "Several anti-coalition militants were killed and two members of the Khost provincial forces were injured in a firefight last night in Khost province," US military said. An Afghan security officer said three Taliban were killed and one captured while two of his own men had been wounded in the fighting in Gurboz district. A Taliban spokesman said five troops were killed and three Taliban fighters were wounded. In a separate attack, rockets were fired in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Friday and an Afghan woman and child were slightly wounded. One of the rockets hit the premises of a Swedish aid organisation but no aid workers were hurt, a security coordinator for aid groups said. Also, at least one man was killed and four wounded late on Friday when a bomb exploded in Kandahar. US forces hunting Taliban and al-Qaeda have a large base at Kandahar's airport, but the explosion happened in a crowded central part of the city, which was once a Taliban stronghold. General Salim Khan, the deputy police chief, said a Russian-made jeep packed with explosives went off as the taxi was passing on a street in the Jaikhoja area of the city. The taxi driver was killed and his two passengers were hurt. Separately, a US patrol in the same province was fired on by Taliban travelling in a pickup truck, and an American 'copter fired back, destroying the truck and killing one militant. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |