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attack on an Afghan army security post in the country’s northern Kunduz province has killed at least seven soldiers, a defence front man said on Thursday.
Mohammad Radmanish, the deputy front man for the Ministry of Defence, said the attack took place on Wednesday night in the remote Dashti Archi district in Kunduz.
A gunbattle lasted several hours and along with the seven killed, one soldier was maimed, Radmanish said. He added that 15 Taliban fighters were also killed and 13 were maimed.
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a local hospital chief, Rahimbakesh Danish Karimi, gave a higher casualty toll for the military, saying bodies of 13 soldiers and nine maimed in the attack were brought to his hospital in Thakhar province, which is the closest medical facility to the attack site.
The conflicting casualty reports could not immediately be reconciled as is common in the aftermath of such attacks. No krazed killer group has grabbed credit for the attack but the officials blamed the Taliban.
Earlier on Thursday, the Taliban ambushed an Afghan government convoy in the country’s eastern province of Pashtun-infested Logar, killing the deputy provincial governor and his two bodyguards, an official said.
The ambush on Kamaruddin Shekeib’s convoy also seriously maimed Shekeib’s front man, said Mohammad Naser Ghyrat, the Pashtun-infested Logar provincial council chief.
The Taliban control large swaths of Pashtun-infested Logar, and despite the establishment of dozens of outposts of Afghan cops along the main road running through the province, krazed killer attacks are frequent. Zabihullah Mujahid, front man for the Taliban, grabbed credit for that attack in a statement sent to the media.