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Six Security Personnel Protecting Kamal Khan Dam Killed
[ToloNews] At least six security personnel assigned for the protection of the Kamal Khan hydroelectric and irrigation dam in the southwestern province of Nimroz were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...on Friday evening, said Nizam Khpulwak, front man for National Water Management Authority. Khpulwak said two security personnel were maimed in the attack near the Kamal Khan dam, which is under construction by the government. The security forces are deployed by the public protection department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs to protect infrastructural projects, including Kamal Khan Dam. Taliban has not commented on the attack. Kamal Khan Dam, built on the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... River in Chaharbarak district in Nimroz, has the capacity to irrigate 174,000 hectares of land in three districts and also it can supply water to Zaranj city, the center of Nimroz, according to the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority. The dam is expected to provide nine megawatts of power, and, in the first stage, it will store 52 million cubic meters of water, according to the authority. Related: Nimroz: 2020-10-18 Security Officials Foil Attempted Explosion in Laghman Province Nimroz: 2020-08-07 7 civilians killed as Taliban bomb roadside bomb goes off in West of Afghanistan Nimroz: 2020-06-28 UN Reports 38% Decrease in Opium Production in Afghanistan Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-25 |
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