Taliban kill dozens during army HQ in northern Afghanistan
Afghan confidence crew keep watch nearby a site of a conflict on an army devalue in Dihdadi District of Balkh province. PHOTO: AFP
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN: Dozens of Afghan soldiers were killed or bleeding on Friday when Taliban gunmen sheltered in Afghan army uniform talked their approach past checkpoints and pounded a troops base, officials said.
A US central in Washington put a fee during some-more than 50 killed and wounded. Afghan officials offering opposing numbers of casualties in a incident, during a vital domicile in northern Afghanistan mostly used by unfamiliar troops advisers.
The Western-backed Afghan supervision is sealed in a enlarged fight with Taliban insurgents and other belligerent groups.
The conflict was launched nearby a mosque on a bottom in Mazar-i-Sharif, a collateral of Balkh province, as soldiers were withdrawal Friday prayers, pronounced army orator Nasratullah Jamshidi.
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Six enemy in dual troops vehicles told guards during a gates that they were carrying bleeding soldiers and urgently indispensable to enter, he said.
After murdering during slightest 8 soldiers and wounding 11 others with rocket-propelled grenades and guns, one assailant was killed and a other 5 arrested, Jamshidi said.
Another Afghan official, vocalization on condition of anonymity as he was not certified to pronounce publicly, pronounced some-more than 20 soldiers had been killed and 50 wounded.
A array of German and other unfamiliar soldiers are formed in Mazar-i-Sharif, including about 70 who advise a corps domicile as partial of a Nato-led multinational goal to advise and sight a Afghan confidence forces.
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“To a knowledge, no Germans were affected. Nor were any other soldiers in a multinational force harmed,” pronounced a orator for a German Operations Command. The matter was echoed by American officials.
Taliban orator Zabihullah Mujahid pronounced a enemy had set off an explosion, permitting self-murder bombers with tiny arms to crack a base’s defences.
“Our fighters have inflicted complicated casualties on a Afghan army stationed there,” he said.
The bottom is a domicile for a Afghan National Army’s 209th Corps, obliged for most of northern Afghanistan, including Kunduz range where there has been complicated fighting. The Nato authority in Kabul called a conflict ‘murderous and reprehensible’.
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