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| 10 militants killed in Afghanistan |
| 2010-05-11 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] US and Afghan forces killed 10 militants in a raid in Afghanistan after the militants beheaded four guards working for the US military, the Afghan army said on Sunday. US and Afghan soldiers engaged the militants for a full day on Saturday in the western district of Shindand, the commander of Afghan army commando forces in Afghanistan told AFP. "We together with US Marines launched an operation against insurgents as a result of which 10 Taliban were killed," said Zainudin Sharifi. Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has a military base in Shindand, part of the relatively peaceful province of Herat, which shares a long border with Iran. Sharifi did not say when the insurgents had captured and beheaded the four Afghan guards or provide any other details. Meanwhile, four members of a community defense force protecting villagers in Afghanistan were beheaded by militants in a weekend battle, an Afghan army official said on Sunday. Maj Zainudin Sharifi, the commander of the Afghan National Army's rapid-response team in Herat province, said the fighting occurred Saturday in Zerko, a Taliban area of Shindand district. Sharifi said members of the defense force, hired by the Afghan Interior Ministry, came under fire when they were investigating tips that suicide bombers were planning to attack a coalition outpost. Four were captured and beheaded. Coalition forces and the quick-response force responded, killing 10 militants. Sharifi said four of the militants died when they were hit by bullets that detonated their suicide vests. Meanwhile, a British soldier was killed by an explosion while on foot patrol on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence said in London. The serviceman, from 40 Commando Royal Marines, was hit by the blast in Sangin, Helmand province on a patrol in support of the Afghan National Army, the ministryÃs statement said. |
| Posted by:Fred |