[Tolo News] At least seven Taliban gunnies including their commander were killed in a drone strike Friday night by the foreign troops in eastern NangarharThe unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province, local officials said.
The strike took place in Lalpoor district when a drone aircraft targeted suspected Taliban gunnies in Much Megi area, said Mohammad Ayoub Hussainkhail, a border police official in eastern Afghanistan.
"A Taliban capo Nazir Afridi who was involved in the insurgency in Nangarhar was also among the dead murderous Moslems," Hussainkhail said, adding the civilians were not harmed in the attack.