7 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
24/11/2008 17:30
The US-led Coalition forces killed seven armed Taliban fighters during an
operation to disrupt the Taliban's roadside bomb and foreign fighter networks in
Ghazni province of eastern Afghanistan yesterday, said a Coalition statement
released in Kabul today.
Coalition forces targeted one of the province's
senior Taliban commanders and searched the hideout in Qarbagh district, the
statement said.
When Coalition forces reached the targeted building, they
were besieged by small-arms fire and hand grenades from militants barricaded
inside the compound, it said. "Coalition force returned fire killing the seven
armed militants inside."
Multiple PKM machine guns, AK-47s, grenades, and
materials used to make road bombs, were found and destroyed to prevent future
use, it said.
Spiraling conflicts and Taliban-linked insurgency have killed
over 5,000 people, most of them are militants.
Xinhua
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