Government forces fought suspected Taliban fighters in central Afghanistan, killing four insurgents and arresting six others, a local official said Saturday. Two government soldiers died. The fighting on Friday in a mountainous district of Uruzgan province broke out after authorities launched a campaign to hunt down suspected rebels in the troubled province, said Abdul Rahim who works at the provincial
governor's office. Rahim estimated that government forces fought as many as 300 suspected Taliban for about four hours, before the rebels retreated into the mountains. It was not possible to independently confirm the figures. The six arrested men were taken to Uruzgan jail.
| If there were 300 of them, and they were on foot, you'd have to be a pretty poor tracker not to be able to follow them. And if they took the bus, an off-road convoy should be fairly obvious. Something's missing from this account... |
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