Afghanistan: Taliban attack kills 2 ANA soldiers
Kabul, Apr 7 (IBNS): Taliban terrorists attacked Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers posts in Afghanistan's northern Sar-i-Pul province, leaving at least 2 security personnel killed, media reports said on Friday.
Three other ANA soldiers were hurt in the incident, reports said.
Maj. Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, spokesman for the 209th Shaheen Corps, told Afghanistan's Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban stormed the ANA post in the Balghali village of the provincial capital.
At least two soldiers were killed and three others wounded in the overnight assault, he told the news agency.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents had seized the army post and killed a number of soldiers.
Civilians were left unharmed in the entire incident.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
