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Afghantistan :Number of IS militants killed in US bombing mounts to 90

India Blooms News Service | | Apr 15, 2017, at 05:40 pm

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Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Apr 15 (IBNS) : The toll from America's largest non-nuclear bomb mounted to at least 90 on Saturday as the Afghan authorities put the figure at 90, news agency AFP reports.

Those killed are said to be members of terror outfit Islamic State, hiding in the caves of Afghanistan's rugged terrain.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs" -- was dropped from US war planes on Thursday as part of the operation to destroy the IS hideouts.

"At least 92 Daesh (ISIS) fighters were killed in the bombing," Achin district governor Esmail Shinwari told AFP on Saturday. Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani gave a toll of 90.

Afghan officials had earlier said the bombing had killed 36 ISIS fighters.

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