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Taliban Attacks Pul-e-Khumri City
 Security Officials said that the Taliban attacked Pul-e-Khumri city in Baghlan early Friday morning and occupied a police checkpoint.Clashes between the security forces and the insurgents lasted two hours but dozens of people have left their homes and fled to safer areas. Meanwhile, a number of soldiers on the frontline have said that security officials were aware of the plan to attack the city, but didn't take any action. "The national security had warned our commander that armed men had taken up positions at the back of our checkpoints, and asked him to send more soldiers to the checkpoint, but he failed to do so. The insurgents attacked us and we fought with them and finally our ammunition ran out and I wounded," said a wounded soldier. However, insurgents were pushed back when backup forces arrived. "A few insurgents were seen on the Shamar Mountain and fired on the city. The people's uprising group along with the security forces fought them and they fled from the region. We have promised to defend the province and will meet our promise," said Ghani, commander of the battalion stationed on Baghlan highway. "People are living normally, there is no concerns regarding security," said Zabih, chief of first district police station of Pul-e-Khumri city. But residents are worried about the attack. "Government has assigned the people to checkpoints that cannot fight the insurgents or they sell the checkpoints to the Taliban and the city's security has deteriorated," said Mahtabuddin, a resident of Pul-e-Khumri. In addition to this, Taliban targeted a police convoy on Friday night in Baghlan Markazi that was carrying ammunitions and military equipment to Kunduz province. Witnesses have said that after a few hours of clashes between the security forces and the insurgents, a lot of the supplies were destroyed after insurgents burnt the trucks. Despite a number of calls to the security departments, they refused to speak about the attack on the convoy. Posted by: badanov 2016-10-08 |
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