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Gun battle kills 15 militants in northern Afghan province

Xinhua, April 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Afghan forces have killed 15 Taliban militants and injured another over the past two days in northern Baghlan province, provincial governor Abdul Sattar Bariz said Saturday.

The cleanup operations in Dand-e-Ghori and neighboring Dand-e-Shahabudin districts, according to the official, would last until militants were wiped out from the area.

Bariz, however, did not comment on the casualties on security personnel.

Both Dand-e-Ghori and Dand-e-Shahabudin on the outskirts of Baghlan's provincial capital Pul-e-Khurmi, 160 km north of Kabul, were captured by government forces in mid March.

However, Taliban militants returned to the area over the past couple of weeks and begun threatening provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri.

The Taliban militants, who launched their annual spring offensive on April 12, engaged in fierce fighting in Baghlan's neighboring Kunduz province on Friday to capture the provincial capital of Kunduz city. Enditem