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13 Taliban including group commander killed in N. Afghanistan

Xinhua, December 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Some 13 Taliban militants, including a group commander, have been killed in operations in the northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman in the province said Wednesday.

"Since launching crackdown on Tuesday, 13 Taliban rebels including a group commander, Mullah Ramadan alias Khanjar, have been killed and 15 others including another commander, Mullah Mansoor, sustained injuries," spokesman Ghulam Hazrat Karimi told reporters here.

However, he admitted that three government forces personnel had been wounded in the fighting which has been continuing.

Taliban militants who briefly captured Kunduz provincial capital, the Kunduz city, 250 km north of Kabul in October, are yet to make comments on the situation.

Karimi also added that the operations launched on Tuesday would continue until the troubled province is cleared of insurgents. Endit