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Afghanistan
Taliban ‘Mortar Shell’ Claims 3 Including Children in Laghman
2020-10-01
[KhaamaPress] Local officials in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province say three non-combatants were killed and three others were maimed when a mortar shell hit a house in Alingar district of Laghman province.

Asadullah Dawlatzai, the front man for the Laghman governor, said that the incident took place last night in the Qoltak area of ​​Alingar district.

He claimed, the mortar was fired by the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, killing three people, including a woman and two children.

Dawlatzai called the health condition of the injured satisfactory and said that they had been taken to hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
on Monday, three people were killed in a Taliban rocket attack, that hit a residential house in Ghazni city.

The Taliban have not yet commented to the media on the incident.
Related:
Laghman: 2020-07-29 ‘Freed Taliban Prisoners Arrested Again’
Laghman: 2020-07-20 Afghanistan: Watchdog Records 17 Attacks on Places of Worship
Laghman: 2020-07-15 Five Bases Closed in Afghanistan: US Official
Related:
Alingar district: 2020-02-14 30 terrorists killed, wounded in 5 provinces: Special Ops Corps
Alingar district: 2019-11-27 26 Taliban militants killed in Special Forces raids in 3 provinces
Alingar district: 2019-11-27 Airstrikes kill 19 Taliban militants in Ghazni, Helmand and Laghman provinces
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