LASHGARGAH (Pajhwok): Nearly 50 Taliban militants, including some notorious commanders, have been killed and scores of others wounded during security forces’ operations in central Uruzgan and southern Helmand provinces, officials said on Sunday.
The governor’s house of Helmand province in a statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said 15 Taliban rebels, including four Pakistani insurgents, were killed and 10 others wounded in foreign forces’ airstrikes in Musa Qala district late on Saturday night.
Mullah Tahir, financial manager of militants, Haji Nasir, recruitment head, Haji Khadam, a military unit director, Haji Rohani, shadow district chief for Nehr-i-Siraj district, Mullah Sadiq Agha, head of Taliban military unit for Kandahar province, Haji Khalid, deputy governor for Uruzgan province and some other key militants were among the dead, the statement added.
Omar Zwak, the Helmand governor’s spokesman, said the NATO airstrikes targeted a big meeting of the Taliban and inflected heavy causalities on them, but he had no exact figures.
He said nine Taliban militants including a notorious commander Hafizullah were killed late on Saturday night when security forces ambushed them in Nehr-i-Siraj district. Two vehicles and some weapons of Taliban were also destroyed in the attack.
On the other hand, Ayub Omar Omari, the Garamsir district chief, said an explosion inside a Taliban’s bomb making factory killed five militants and wounded two others in Kharko locality.
Separately, Uruzgan deputy police chief, Noozai, said operations were ongoing in Safid Khar, Baqir, Dab Alokozai and Gogorak localities over the past three days.
He said so far 20 Taliban insurgents including a commander had been killed in the ongoing operation which would continue until the areas were cleared of militants.
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