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2 NATO Soldiers, 5 Afghani Soldiers, 3 Policemen, 49 Taliban Fighters Killed in Attacks

April 29, 2014

Injured NATO soldier, file, 2014	Destroyed Afghani mud homes, file, 2014

49 militants, 5 soldiers killed in eastern Afghan attack

English.news.cn   2014-04-29 13:17:22

KABUL, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Up to 49 Taliban insurgents and five soldiers were killed following a Taliban massive attack in eastern Afghan province of Paktiya, a Defense Ministry official said Tuesday morning.

"More than 500 insurgents attacked army after an operation was launched in Paktiya province. 49 militants and five soldiers had been killed," General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, a defense ministry spokesman, said in his twitter account.

One army soldier was made captive in the engagement. Several foreign militants were also involved in the clash, he said.

He said the operation was launched early Monday and ended early Tuesday morning.

The army also called in air force support from NATO-led coalition forces. The coalition responded to the attack, he said.

Six army soldiers were also wounded in the engagement in the province, 100 km south of Afghan capital Kabul, according to Azimi.

Also on Monday, two foreign soldiers were killed as a result of Taliban attacks in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led coalition forces confirmed in a statement. The Taliban insurgent group has intensified attacks in spring and summer known as the fighting season in the war-torn country.  

Editor: xuxin

2 NATO troops die in attack in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —

The international military coalition in Afghanistan says two of its service members died in an attack in the country's east.

The NATO force said the two died Monday but gave no other details. Coalition policy is for home countries to identify their military dead.

The deaths come two days after five British service members died in a helicopter crash in the southern province of Kandahar. They bring to nine the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this month and 25 this year.

Casualties have been falling in the U.S.-led military coalition as its forces pull back to allow the Afghan army and police to fight the Taliban insurgency. All combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from the country by the end of this year.

Three policemen killed in Afghanistan attack

By Indo Asian News Service

Kabul, April 29, 2014 (IANS) --

At least three police personnel were killed and one policeman injured Tuesday when Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Afghanistan.

"The militants raided an Afghan Local Police(ALP)checkpoint in Alingar district in eastern Afghan province of Laghman early Tuesday, leaving three ALP personnel dead and injuring one policeman," Xinhua quoted the provincial government as saying in a statement.

The ALP, or community police, was established in 2010 to protect villages and districts around the country where army and police have limited presence.