April 28, 2007
29 Taliban Fighters, Two Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Kabul
Afghan and international forces killed at least 29 suspected Taliban
fighters in separate clashes in southern and eastern Afghanistan,
while two soldiers died in separate incidents, officials said
Saturday.
A group of Taliban militants attacked the district headquarters of
Alisher district in eastern Khost province Saturday but Afghan
police forces repelled the attack "forcefully," provincial police
chief Mohammad Ayoub said.
"The NATO Air Force engaged the militants from the air as the
militants were taking their dead and wounded comrades while
retreating from the area," Ayoub said.
"Fourteen Taliban dead bodies were left on the site and were
transported to the provincial hospital," he said. Two policemen were
also slightly wounded.
Meanwhile, Afghan and US-led Coalition forces killed ten Taliban
militants and destroyed two buildings in an air and ground
engagement Saturday morning in southern Helmand Province, US
military said in a statement.
The firefight triggered after the combined forces' convoy was
ambushed by militants in the vicinity of Gereshk district, the
statement said, adding that the Coalition forces fought back from
the ground and employed close air support.
Five more Taliban fighters were killed and another five were
arrested when Afghan and coalition forces raided their hideout in
southern Zabul province, a separate statement by US military said.
"Credible information led the Coalition to the compound suspected of
sheltering local Taliban leadership connected to Mullah Dadullah
Lang.
These militants are suspected of weapons smuggling and planning
attacks on Coalition forces and peaceful Afghans in the area," the
statement said.
No Afghan or coalition soldiers were hurt during the raid, it added.
A soldier with International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was
found dead in his barracks Friday, ISAF said in a statement.
The statement did not identify the soldier nor did it say the cause
of death, but said that it was a "non-combat incident."
Early Friday, a US-led coalition soldier was killed when his unit
engaged with suspected Taliban militants in western Herat province,
the US military said in a statement.
"Coalition forces employed a variety of combined arms to include
close air support to destroy and repel enemy insurgents during the
firefight," the statement said, but it did not say if any Taliban
militants were killed during the fighting.
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