NATO airstrikes target Taliban in east Afghanistan

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/NATO-airstrikes-target-Taliban-in-east-Afghanistan/articleshow/9258288.cms

KABUL: NATO warplanes on Sunday bombed a school in eastern Afghanistan taken over by an unknown number of Taliban fighters as Afghan troops battled with insurgents holed up inside the building, a provincial official said.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial governor, said Taliban fighters took control of the school, which was empty because the students are on summer break, early Sunday in the Khewa district of the eastern province. It was not immediately clear how many insurgents had occupied the school.

NATO had no immediate comment.

In an unrelated incident, NATO said one of its service members was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. It did not release a nationality or any further details.