[Tolo News] At least 17 bully boyz were killed this week while planting bombs in the road in three different Afghan provinces, according to local officials.As many as 11 cut-thoats, including their Iranian trainer, were killed in the blast from an improvised bomb (IED) in northwestern Badghis province, a local official said Tuesday.
The blast occurred in the Bala Murghab district on Sunday while the bully boyz were learning how to plant roadside mines, provincial army commander Gen. Daoud Shah Wafadar said.
The mine went
kaboom!killing 11 bully boyz and an Iranian who is understood to have been training the group on how to plant IEDs, he said.
It comes as at least three bully boyz were killed trying to embed an IED in the road in Parwan province, but were fired upon by security forces, a local official said Monday.
The bully boyz were planting the bomb in the Pul Kharawati region of Koh-e-Safi district on Sunday morning when security forces opened fire on them, provincial front man Roshna Khalid said.
Two of the Afghan cops were maimed in the return fire, he said.
Another three bully boyz were killed while planting a bomb in eastern Laghman province on Sunday night, a local official said Monday.
The bully boyz blew themselves up embedding the IED in a road in central Laghman, provincial front man Sarhadi Zwak said.
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12 bully boyz were killed Sunday night in western Kandahar province during a clash with Afghan police.
The bully boyz attacked a police checkpoint in the Shah Wali Kot district and came under fire, provincial front man Jawed Faisal said.
According to Faisal, the clash did not result in any security or civilian causalities.
In addition, a weapons smuggler was killed in a joint Afghan and Isaf military operation in Maidan Shahr district of Wardak province on Saturday, Isaf said in a statement on Monday.
Several other cut-thoat were also killed in operation.
The weapons smuggler, Tor Gul, who was also known as Emal and Mukhlis, was responsible for transporting ammunition and IED components for bully boyz throughout the region, Isaf said.
