Security officials among 9 dead as attack on Charkh district ends

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Two security personnel, seven Taliban were killed and 17 more were wounded during day-long gun battle in Charkh district of central Logar province on Thursday, an official said.

Saleem Saleh, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban stormed the district centre around 05:00am on Thursday morning the attack followed a retaliatory fighting by security forces, killing at least seven militants and inflicted injuries to another 14.

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