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Afghan police kill 148 militants in 24 hours

Xinhua, September 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Units of police backed by the army have killed 148 Taliban militants during series of operations across the conflict-hit Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Wednesday.

In the operations which covered parts of Nangarhar, Laghman, Baghlan, Kandahar, Zabul, Oruzgan, Logar, Takhar, Paktiya and Farah provinces, 120 more insurgents have sustained injuries, the statement added.

The crackdown has taken place in the wake of the Taliban victory in the northern Kunduz province and capturing major parts of provincial capital the Kunduz city on Monday.

More than 160 Taliban militants, according to Kunduz police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, have been killed in counter- offensive involving ground and air force over the past two days.

Taliban militants have yet to make comment on claims about insurgents' casualties. Enditem