LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Twenty-two border police personnel and 35 militants have been killed during a clash in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province, a security official said on Wednesday.
The policemen’s corpses were sent to Lashkargah, the provincial capital, after Tuesday’s firefight in the Kurma Karez area of the district, the official told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity.
At least nine border policemen from the fourth and fifth battalions were wounded and seven more had been missing since the deadly encounter, he . . .
