Afghan forces foil 473 terror bid on election day
Iran Press TV
Sat Jun 14, 2014 5:46PM GMT
Afghanistan's national security forces have reportedly foiled at least 473 major terrorist attack plots during the nation's presidential election day.
Chief of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) Rahmatullah Nabil stated on Saturday that Taliban-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba and Haqqani Network militants were attempting to carry out coordinated attacks in various parts of the country during the presidential election day.
Nabil further added that the country's national security forces also carried out at least 60 military operations to thwart planned attacks by Taliban militants.
The intelligence official underlined that the militants were making efforts to conduct at least 1,000 terrorist attacks in six different zones of the country, including Kandahar, Helmand and Herat provinces.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan's Army Chief of Staff Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi also announced that Afghan national security forces managed to foil the major terrorist plots by maintaining close coordination.
Gen. Karimi further added that the Afghan security forces suffered casualties during the election day mostly due to improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.
He also added that the enemies of Afghanistan suffered heavy casualties as well during the operations by Afghan security forces.
According to local press reports, at least 46 people were killed in separate militant attacks throughout Afghanistan on Saturday.
'Eleven police, 15 ANA (Afghanistan National Army) and 20 civilians were martyred,' Interior Minister Omar Daudzai told reporters, adding that about 60 militants were also killed.
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