(Xinhua) -- The Afghan National Army (ANA) in three operations launched on Sunday in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province eliminated 11 suspected Taliban insurgents, said a statement of the Interior Ministry released here on Monday. "The ANA launched the operations targeting the anti-government militants in three separate districts of Charchinu, Chura and TrinKot in Uruzgan province," the statement said, "clashes left 11 militants including three commanders dead and five police wounded." One car, three motor bikes, three machine guns and two mines were also captured from the militants, it added.
In another incident, two persons were killed in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province as a suicide bomber blew himself up Monday morning, provincial governor Mohammad Akram Khapalwak said. "It took place inside a mosque in Urgon district when police identified a terrorist and he blew himself up killing two worshipers," Khapalwak told Xinhua.
The bomber was also killed in the incident, he further added. Hajji Abdul Rahman, the district chief of Urgon, also told Xinhua that one of the victims is the prayer leader of the mosque while a child was injured in the explosion.