...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province said on Monday.
The officials said the house being used by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...to train jacket wallahs was located adjacent to the bride's home that came under fire during Sunday night's attack.
A senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said the raid was against "a foreign terrorist group actively engaged in organising terrorist attacks".
"During the operation, a large warehouse of the terrorists' supplies and equipment was also demolished," the official said.
A second Afghan Defence Ministry official said a foreign krazed killer detonated a boom jacket that killed him and others around him, including a woman.
"The compound was being used to train men and women who were willing to become suicide bombers, we raided it. We are aware that civilians were maimed in the attack," he said.
Attaullah Afghan, a member of the Helmand provincial council member, said 35 civilians attending the wedding party near to the attack site in the Khaksar area of Musa Qala district were killed and 13 were maimed.
A second provincial council member, Abdul Majid Akhundzadah, said 40 people, all civilians.
The defence ministry said the Taliban hideout was also used by foreign nationals working for the hardline group.
"As a result of a joint operation in Musa Qala district of Helmand, 22 Taliban members were killed and 14 others arrested," the ministry said in a statement.
| Update from Tolo News at 8:35 p.m. CDT: |
Other sources say that the 22 foreign fighters killed were members of al-Qaida.
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