2 Main News Page 2 Killed, 8 Injured as Truck Flips over in Kandahar Top Taliban Commander KANDAHAR CITY - Two Afghan News. persons were killed and He said the dead included another eight, including two men and the injured women and children, sus- included three women and tained injuries on Tuesday five children, blaming the KUNDUZKilled CITY - A top Taliban in Kunduz Provinceothers were wounded. when the truck they were incident on a dilapidated commander has been killed in a According to an operational up- travelling in flipped over in condition of the road. raid conducted by Afghan army date by MoD, 3 militants were southern Kandahar prov- Durrani said recent rains and in coordination with the Af- killed during a separate operation ince, an official said. had damaged some parts ghan police forces in northern Kun- in Mata Khan district of Paktia and The truck, carrying three of the Uruzgan-Kandahar duz province. center of Ghazni province. families along with their be- highway. Police rushed The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said The Taliban militants group has longings, was coming from to the scene and evacuated the Taliban commander was identi- not commented regarding the re- central Uruzgan province the injured to the Mirwais fied as Mawlavi Jahangir who was port so far which comes amid surg- to Kandahar when flipped hospital in Kandahar City. killed along with 2 others in Qala- ing violence across the country. across the road in Tangi A doctor in the hospital e-Zal district. MoD further added The Afghan forces have stepped area of Shah Walikot dis- said the injured were under that 12 militants were killed in a up counter-terrorism operations trict in the afternoon, Kan- treatment and said some of separate operation in Dehrawood amid rampant Taliban-led insur- dahar police spokesman, them had sustained serious district of Urugan province and 8 gency in ...(More on P4)...(15) Zia Durrani, told Pajhwok injuries. (Pajhwok) Bodies of 2 19 IS Militants Killed in Women, as Many 6 Civilians Killed in Suicide Bombing Men Found in Kabul CHARIKAR - Six civilians, KABUL - Two men and as many including two women, were Fresh Nangarhar Offensive women have been found dead killed and 26 others wound- JALALABAD - Nineteen Islam- in the Dasht-i-Barchi locality in ed in a suicide bombing near ic State or Daesh militants were the limits of the 13th police dis- a hospital in Afghanistan’s killed and another 15 wounded trict of Kabul, an official said on eastern province of Parwan during a security forces’ op- Tuesday. on Tuesday, an official said. eration launched on Tuesday in Brig. Gen. Faridoon Obaidi, “The blast took place in Sia the Kot district of eastern Nan- crime branch chief of the 101st Gird District, western of garhar province, officials said. Asmayee Zone Police, said provincial capital Charikar The operation, spearheaded by the four individuals had been city, at around 9:30 a.m. lo- Maj. Gen Fazal Ahamd Shir- killed mysteriously. Motive cal time (0500 GMT). As a zad, the provincial police, was behind the murder is yet to be result six civilians lost their of Afghan capital of Kabul, sponsibility for the incident. launched in Lagharjo area in the fered no casualties during the said gunshots were still being known. The four persons, hav- lives and 26 others were the source added. However, local officials morning, said Nangarhar po- operation that would continue heard in the area, but he had ing no relations, had gathered injured,” district Governor Several children and women blamed enemies of Afghani- lice spokesman Hazrat Husain for a few days till the area was no figures for casualties. at a house, where they were Mohammad Sayyed Seddiqi were also affected by the stan, a term referring to Tali- Mashriqiwal. He told Pajhwok completely purged of mili- He said security forces had killed by unidentified assail- told Xinhua. blast as a local school is lo- ban militant group, for the Afghan News as of the evening, tants. also launched a manhunt for ants, he said. Obaidi added The attacker was also killed cated near the blast site, ac- attack. 19 Daesh fighters were killed Bakhtyar, a resident of Kot militants to clear the area of one suspect had been arrested on the spot. Some injured, cording of locals. The Taliban, which ruled the and 15 others wounded during district, said the operation them. The governor’s spokes- in connection with the murder who sustained serious The target of the attack re- country before they were the operation. Mashriqiwal said followed drone strikes in the man, Attaullah Khogyani, case. The detainee is under in- wounds, were shifted to mained unknown and no ousted in late 2001, renewed the Afghan security forces suf- area on Monday night. He ...(More on P4)...(16) vestigation. (Pajhwok) Charikar city, 50 km north group has claimed the re- ...(More on P4)...(17) NDS Claims Ghazni Culture Dept. Building Busting 4 Insurgent Floods Maroon Dozens of Civilians Groups in Kandahar in Sangin, Garmser Districts in Dire Need of Repair LASHKARGHA - Triggered GHAZNI CITY - The in- two years ago targeted others. Khaliqdad Akbari, by incessant rains, floods formation and culture the National Directorate the provincial council inflicted heavy losses on department’s building of Security (NDS) of- chief, told Pajhwok Af- residents of some districts of could not be repaired fice in Ghazni City, the ghan News it was due to southern Helmand province, in two years after it was provincial capital, also the negligence of the cul- officials said on Tuesday. damaged in a powerful damaging the informa- ture department officials Ayub Umar Umari, admin- bomb explosion in the tion and culture depart- that the building could istrative chief for Garmser capital of southern Ghaz- ment’s building besides not be repaired during district, told Pajhwok Afghan ni province. The blast the NDS’s and several ...(More on P4)...(18) Kabul - The National Directorate Security News 50 homes were dam- (NDS) personals on Tuesday busting four in- aged by the overnight flood- tially destroyed by the floods crops on hundreds of acres of surgent groups comprised of 19 individuals in ing in Sarband locality. Four if immediate preventive landin Sangin. However, the Two Police, Three Insurgents southern Kandahar province. children had been marooned measures were not initiated. flooding did not cause causal- A statement from the spy service said the ar- in the Darweshano local- The water level in Helmand ities in the district. If urgent Killed in Paktika Clashes rested individuals wanted to carry out terror- ity and 30 passengers in Laki and Arghandab Rivers is fast assistance was not provided, KABUL - At least two po- three other policemen and insurgents attacked a po- ist activities in the province. area, the official said. At least rising. Mullah Mohammad some people might lose their licemen and three Taliban four Taliban insurgents lice outpost on Monday Seven pistols, 200 kilograms of explosives, 500 50 more stranded families in Qasim, former chief of Nad lives, he feared.On Monday insurgents were killed in were injured. night, said officials. metres of wire, two vehicles and some military Sarband could not move to Ali district, said the flood- floods killed three people in clashes in south-eastern The clash took place in However, officials did not equipment had been recovered from the de- safety. He warned the largest shad displaced hundreds of southern Zabul province. Paktika province, local of- Mata Khan district, close provide more details about tainees, the statement added. (Pajhwok) canal in Garmser could be par- families and washed away (Pajhwok) ficials said. In addition, to Sharan, when Taliban the clash. 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