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Afghanistan: Airstrike leaves 25 Taliban insurgents dead in Paktika
Kabul: Airstrikes left 25 Taliban terrorists dead in southeastern Paktika province in Afghanistan on Friday, media reports said.
The deceased included the group’s shadow governor.
A spokesman for the Paktika governor, Ghazi Danish, told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike was carried out in the Khoshamand district at around 9am.
Mohammad Isa Kandahari, Taliban’s governor for Paktika, was seriously wounded in the airstrikes, which killed 25 Taliban, including Kandahari’s spokesman, and wounded five others, the news agency reported.
He said the operation lasted until 12pm. He said the Taliban governor had arrived in Khoshamand district with a group of Taliban’s Red Unit members but fell prey to the airstrike.
Bahram, a resident of Khoshamand district, confirmed the airstrikes but told the news agency the Taliban had cordoned off the area and were not allowing anyone to come close to the site.
The Taliban did not comment on the matter so far.
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