AIBAK (Pajhwok): Militants have been attempting to take control of coalmines in Dara-i-Suf Bala district of northern Samangan province, the provincial police chief said on Tuesday.
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Baqer Massoud told a visiting delegation of the Meshrano Jirga or Senate here that only six police kept security for the coalmine site.
He said there were a total of 75 policemen in the entire district stretched over a huge area while some 2,000 people worked at about 1,000 tunnels of coal mine . . .
