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Taliban attacks kill 24 police in 2 days
[WJLA] Taliban attacks on a district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province killed at least 24 coppers over the past two days, an Afghan official said on Sunday. Kareem Atal, the director of Helmand's provincial council, said that battles between government forces and turbans have been raging in the Kanashin district since late Friday, when the Taliban took control. The fighting has spread north to other districts, where turbans are targeting checkpoints and have killed at least seven coppers, he said. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-01 |
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