Police supported by US-led coalition troops claim killing 120 suspected Talebans

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September 2007



KABUL - Afghan police claimed on Sunday to have killed 120 suspected Taleban fighters in southern Kandahar province over the weekend, while coalition forces said they arrested 11, including a Taleban leader, in the eastern region.


Afghan and coalition forces gave contradictory reports on the death toll of insurgents at the weekend in the southern province of Kandahar.

Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib said their forces, supported by US-led coalition troops, killed 120 insurgents in two operations southwest of the city.

Twenty militants were killed in Arghandab district and another 100 were killed in Zherai district in two separate operations that began late Saturday and was ongoing, Saqib told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Dozens of insurgents’s bodies had been left on the battlefields.

Meanwhile, the US military said in a statement that Afghan and coalition forces killed at least 25 suspected insurgents in a firefight southwest of Kandahar City, the provincial capital.