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Dozens killed in fresh violence across Afghanistan

An Afghan man carries firewood past destroyed homes in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Saturday. Dozens have been killed in clashes across the country since Thursday. PHOTO: AP

Dozens of people including six security guards and a policeman were killed in a fresh wave of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.

Thirty-two Taliban-linked militants were killed in fighting with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in the southern province of Uruzgan on Thursday, the US-led force said in a statement.

The rebels were killed after attacking US-led and Afghan security forces patrolling the restive province’s Khas Uruzgan District, the statement said. A child and a two police officers were wounded in the battle, it added.

“A total of 32 militants were killed by Afghan national security forces and coalition forces in two separate engagements in the Khas Uruzgan District,” the statement added.

Seven other Taliban rebels were killed in the same area late on Friday, provincial police chief Juma Gul Hemat said.

In a separate incident, also late on Friday, six security guards were killed and three injured when gunmen attacked their posts near a mine in the eastern province of Khost, a provincial spokesman said.

The guards were from a private Afghan security company and were hired by the government to secure a chromite mine.

Meanwhile, a policeman was killed and three injured in a roadside bomb in Kandahar Province near the border with Pakistan, a police commander said.
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