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Taliban kill six de-miners in western Afghanistan
[Dhaka Tribune] The Taliban shot and killed six people working for a demining company in western Afghanistan, police said yesterday, a day after the United Nations...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said the number of civilian casualties in the country jumped by a quarter in the first half of 2014. "The Taliban killed six de-miners from the Halo Trust landmine clearance organization while they were on an operation in Kohsan district of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... . They kidnapped three people," said Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a front man for the provincial police chief. "The de-miners started their trip very early in the morning and hadn't informed the police," Ahmadi said, adding that a manhunt was under way to rescue the three kidnapped workers. The United Nations has documented 4,853 civilian casualties in Afghanistan, including 1,564 civilian deaths and 3,289 injuries, in the period between Jan. 1 to June 30. In southern Zabul province, four coppers were killed by three of their colleagues overnight. The rogue coppers have since defected to the Taliban with guns and a police vehicle. "The incident took place in Jaldak district of Zabul. An investigation is under way," Zabul deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar, told Rooters. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-11 |
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