[Tolo News] At least 100 Daesh holy warriors have been killed during an attack on security forces outposts in eastern NangarharThe unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province since Tuesday, local officials said.
In addition, more than 50 have been injured.
Fazal Ahmad Serzad, Provincial Police Chief said: "Daesh are taking orders directly from Pakistain's intelligence service (ISI) and more than 90 percent of Daesh holy warriors are Pak nationals."
Serzad said that festivities still continue in some parts of Ashin district of the province and so far three security soldiers have been killed and eight others injured.
This comes after Daesh holy warriors attacked the security outposts at 3 a.m (local time) on Tuesday. Hundreds of holy warriors started festivities, said officials.
"Reinforcements have been deployed to the areas. So far there are no civilian or Afghan security force casualties," officials said.
Two days ago security officials announced that for the first time, the newly emerged holy warrior group launched an attack on security forces in Achin.
The festivities between Daesh fighters and Afghan cops continued for several hours which resulted in the death of three Afghan soldiers and 40 Daesh holy warriors.
A security source said on condition of anonymity on Tuesday that the U.S forces provided air support to their Afghan counterparts during Sunday's armed encounter.