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| British soldier among 14 dead in Afghanistan |
| 2006-08-28 |
| A British soldier was killed and another NATO troop wounded in attacks in Afghanistan early on Sunday while police said they killed 10 Taliban who tried to capture a district headquarters. In other violence linked to a Taliban insurgency, a roadside bomb blast struck a police vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two security officers. The ISAF soldier was killed in an insurgent attack in Helmand province, ISAF said in a statement. The Ministry of Defence in London announced the soldier was British. Helmand police said meanwhile that about 40 Taliban fighters late on Saturday stormed the headquarters of Musa Qala district, also in the north of the province, sparking a three-hour gunfight in which 10 Taliban were killed. In a separate incident early on Sunday, a base in Kandahar came under mortar fire that wounded an ISAF soldier and six Afghans. A remote-controlled bomb struck a police vehicle in Khost, killing a police officer and an intelligence official. Also, gunmen attacked early on Sunday a bus carrying about 30 prisoners from Kandahar to the capital, killing a guard but failing to free any of the inmates, police said. Meanwhile, the US military insisted on Sunday that the raid earlier this week that left eight people dead in eastern Afghanistan, targeted an “Al Qaeda associate” who was also killed. Col Tom Collins, the chief US spokesman, said Alam Zer, described as a commander of extremist group belonging to the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was the target of the Thursday raid in the eastern Kunar province. |
| Posted by:Fred |