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Scores killed as US-led forces clash with Taliban in Afghanistan
US-led coalition troops clashed with a group of Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six militants, while four militants were killed in a battle in the south, officials said.
- AP
- Published: 14:52 August 24, 2008
Kabul: US-led coalition troops clashed with a group of Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six militants, while four militants were killed in a battle in the south, officials said.
In the north, troops returned fire after being attacked by militants while on patrol in the volatile Tagab valley of Kapisa province, a coalition spokesman said.
The province's deputy governor said six militants were killed in the clash, while the coalition said "multiple militants" were killed.
In southern Helmand province four militants were killed by Nato aircraft and Afghan troops on Sunday, the military alliance said in a statement.
Troops fired on the militants after they attacked an Afghan army unit that was guarding a satellite station in Helmand's Musa Qala district, the statement said.
In the eastern Kunar province, a civilian Mi-8 supply helicopter contracted by Nato-led troops crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday, killing one person on board and wounding three others, the alliance said in a statement.
It said the helicopter was leaving a NATO base in the area when in crashed. The alliance did not release the nationalities of the civilians or say what caused the crash.
Separately, three civilians were killed and seven others wounded when their vehicle was hit Sunday by a roadside bomb in the eastern Khost province, the provincial chief said.
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