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Some 100 Taliban militants slain across Afghanistan

Iran Press TV

Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:0AM

Afghan army troops backed by security forces have killed nearly 100 Taliban militants and wounded more than three dozen others in a series of clean-up operations across the strife-torn Asian country over the past 24 hours.

The Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that 98 militants were killed and 38 others injured in a series of operations carried out in the provinces of Badakhshan, Farah, Ghazni, Helmand, Herat, Kandahar, Kapisa, Kunar, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Paktia, Takhar, Uruzgan and Zabul.

The statement added that two Taliban members were also arrested during the offensives, while ten Afghan soldiers lost their lives.

Afghan soldiers also confiscated light and heavy weaponry and defused several rounds of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Taliban shadow governor killed in northern Afghanistan

Meanwhile, Afghan security forces have killed the Taliban's shadow governor for a district in the country's northern province of Kunduz during an operation against members of the militant outfit.

Sunnatullah Temor, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said Qari Mohammadi – the Taliban governor for the Archi district – was killed along with four comrades.

Separately, Taliban's shadow governor for the central province of Samangan, Mawlavi Abdul Karim, has renounced violence together with 26 of his aides.

The Taliban militant group has not made any comments on the reports yet.

Civilian casualties in Kabul blast

Additionally, three people sustained injuries on Thursday, when a magnetic bomb attached to a vehicle exploded in the capital, Kabul.

Basir Mujahid, a police official, said the blast took place at around 11:15 a.m. local time (0645 GMT) in the western Mirwais Maidan neighborhood of Kabul.

The official added that the injured were taken to a nearby hospital, and that a search operation was underway to arrest those behind the bombing.

No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity 14 years after the United States and its allies attacked the country as part of Washington's so-called war on terror.