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5 civilians, 4 militants killed as Taliban rocket explodes in Kunar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 5 civilians and 4 snuffies were killed after a Taliban rocket went kaboom!prematurely in eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... of Afghanistan, the security officials said Sunday. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces said the incident took place on Saturday evening in Dangam district. The incident took place as the snuffies were transporting an artillery shell that went off on the way, the 201st Silab Corps said, ad ding that 5 more civilians were maimed. The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far. Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where the anti-government armed krazed killer groups including the Taliban Death Eaters and foreign snuffies including the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are actively operating in a number of its districts. The Taliban group in Afghanistan is accused of incurring the most of casualties to the civilians as the group’s insurgency entered to its 15th year. The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan released the latest civilian casualties report late in July which stated at least 3726 non-combatants were killed or maimed between January and June of this year. The UN mission said the civilian casualties in the country has reached to a record number since counting began in 2009, with 5,166 civilians recorded killed or maimed in just the first six months of this year, of whom almost one-third were children. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-26 |
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