KABUL, Nov 3 (NNN-XINHUA) – Anti-government militants’ attacks left at least 31 dead and 24 injured on Monday, as the armed insurgents targeted Kabul University and security personnel elsewhere, throughout the day, officials said.
The armed militants, in a brazen attack, stormed Kabul University on Monday, triggering a gun battle, which left 22 dead, including three attackers, and 22 others injured, Interior Ministry spokesman, Tareq Arian said.
Arian confirmed that 19 persons were killed due to the militants’ attack, and 22 others injured. However, he didn’t identify the victims, saying an investigation is underway to determine the victims’ identity.
However, he blamed the Taliban group for the attack, claiming, the Taliban outfit is “behind the crime.”
In the meantime, locals at the site believed that the number of casualties could be higher than reported.
Militants’ attack in the shape of roadside bombing, claimed the lives of seven persons, all civilians in the southern Helmand province on Monday, provincial governor, Mohammad Yasin Khan told reporters.
According to the governor, a mine planted by Taliban militants on a road in Bolan, outside Helmand provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, struck a mini-bus Monday morning, killing seven people including women and children.
Similarly, a car bomb went off next to a security base in Zarmat district, eastern Paktia province, in the wee hours of Monday, killing two security personnel and wounding two others, provincial police chief, Lutfullah Kamran, said.
In the meantime, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry, Fawad Aman, told local media last night that, the Taliban outfit launched attacks on 27 out of the country’s 34 provinces, over the past 24 hours, to gain more ground amid peace talks in Doha, but all the attacks have been beaten back.– NNN-XINHUA
