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33 militants killed in Afghan raids

Xinhua, March 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

About 33 militants have been killed during separate cleanup operations in Afghanistan, said the country's Interior Ministry on Saturday.

"Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) launched cleanup operations in Nangarhar, Parwan, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Herat, Farah and Helmand provinces over the past 24 hours, killing 33 armed Taliban members," the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates.

Some 14 militants were wounded while nine others were detained by the ANSF during the raids, the statement added.

The security forces also found and seized weapons, the statement said, without adding if there were any casualties on the side of the security forces.

The Taliban insurgent group, which has been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, has yet to make comments. Endi