Six people have died after Taliban fighters attacked Afghan government and U.S. forces in the south of the country, a provincial official says. Four of the dead were Taliban fighters.
The attack in Uruzgan province on Tuesday, came on the same day that security forces arrested two prominent Taliban supporters in separate incidents, one a brother-in-law of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. "Taliban ambushed coalition forces, one civilian woman, four Taliban and one government officer were killed," the governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammad Khan, told Reuters.
U.S. military spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.
Taliban supreme leader Omar is believed to be orchestrating the insurgency from somewhere in hiding. On Tuesday, security forces captured one of his brothers-in-law in Uruzgan, which is Omar's home province. The man, Mullah Amanullah, was being moved to Kabul on Wednesday into the authority of the central government, Khan said.
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Khan declined to give any details of the investigation into Amanullah or say if he had information about Omar's whereabouts.
Authorities in Helmand province, to the south of Uruzgan, said they had captured a deputy of the Taliban's top commander in southern Afghanistan, Mullah Dadullah. The deputy, Kaka Sardar, was caught while travelling by motorbike on Tuesday. He had a satellite telephone and a pistol with him, said the governor of Helmand, Sher Mohammad Akhunzada.
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