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Afghanistan
ANA Safely Detonates Explosive-Laden Vehicle in Kandahar
2020-12-17
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan National Army (ANA) has destroyed a vehicle fully loaded with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Tuesday, which targeted security forces in Arghandab district of Kandahar province.

According to officials, the explosive-laden vehicle were detonated in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
. No one has been harmed during the earth-shattering kaboom.

"#ANA prevented a car kaboom in Arghandab district of Kandahar province today," said the MoD in a tweet. "A car full of explosives were destroyed in an airstrik in the district."

No group of individual has immediately claimed ownership of the explosive.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
at least 16 IEDs were defused after ANA discovered the explosives in both Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces.

"16 IEDs which were placed by Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
on public roads in Arghandab district of Kandahar province and Terin Kot district of Urzgan province, were discovered and defused by ANA, yesterday," said the MoD in a tweet.
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