KABUL, Dec 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – More than 24 armed Taliban insurgents were killed and 31 militants, affiliated with the hard-line Daesh outfit surrendered, in the insurgency-battered Afghanistan, over the past 24 hours, officials said.
The security forces, in crackdown on the Taliban hideouts, killed eight armed insurgents in the restive Baraki Barak district of the eastern Logar province.
The operation, according to the statement released Saturday, was launched late Friday and lasted for a few hours, leaving eight insurgents dead and wounding two others.
Similarly, eight militants were reportedly killed and seven others injured, in Taloka area of the northern Kunduz province, as government forces kicked off operations early on Saturday, provincial government spokesman, Esmatullah Muradi, asserted.
Meanwhile, Taliban militants executed three fighters of the rival Daesh group in Khostak valley of Jarm district in the northern Badakhshan province, Abdullah, a police officer in the troubled district, claimed.
A bomb blast, for which the Taliban outfit has claimed responsibility, claimed the life of a senior officer of the Border Police Force and wounded three others, in the southern Helmand province on Saturday.
At least five more people, including three children, according to security officials, were killed elsewhere in the insurgency-plagued country over the past 24 hours.
Disputing the claims, Taliban spokesman, Zabihuallah Majahid, in contact with the media emphasised that, dozens of security forces had been killed elsewhere in the country, over the past 24 hours.
A total of 31 Daesh fighters, along with their families, including 62 women and children, surrendered to the security forces in Achin district, of the eastern Nangarhar province, over the past 24 hours.
Since the warring sides in Afghanistan often exaggerate the casualties of their opponents, it is difficult to verify with independent sources.– NNN-AGENCIES
