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Taliban militants kill 5 Afghan police in Helmand overnight raid
[Iran Press TV] At least five Afghan coppers have been killed after the Taliban...Arabic for students... Lion of Islam group launched an attack against their checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , local police say. General Abdul Ghafar Safi, the provincial police chief, said the incident occurred in Nawa district late on Friday, where fierce festivities between the two sides were still underway early Saturday. He added that six other coppers sustained injuries in the overnight attack. In a statement released in the early hours of Saturday, Taliban grabbed credit for the deadly raid. Back on July 18, the terror group killed five other coppers in the northern province of Baghlan after its heavily-armed hard boyz raided a police checkpoint in Jaded district. On Friday, Captain Farid, commander of the 3rd Battalion of 3rd Company of 209 Shaheen Military Corps in the northern province of Faryab, announced that at least 80 members of the Afghan National Army had been under siege by Talibs for the previous 20 days. He also warned that the encircled troops, trapped in Chinaee Camp in Ghormach district, had not received ammunition since the siege began, and if they do not receive any support, they would soon be taken captive by the terror group. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-20 |
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