60 Taliban and four Afghan soldiers killed in fighting
Sixty Taliban militants and four Afghan soldiers were killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan that also involved coalition airstrikes, an Afghan army general said today.
Gen. Rehmatullah Raufi said that Taliban militants clashed with Afghan soldiers in Uruzgan province yesterday evening and that four Afghan soldiers died and that the bodies of about 60 militants were recovered. Three Afghan soldiers were wounded.
The number of casualties is difficult to confirm independently because the scene of the fighting was remote and insecure and could not be reached.
Coalition airstrikes were called in toward the end of the battle, said Raufi, the military commander for southern Afghanistan.
The fighting began in a small village in Tirin Kot district before the militants fled higher into the mountains, Raufi said.
It was there that airstrikes bombed Taliban positions, he said.
In the past year, Uruzgan has been the site of some of the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan, but militants suffered high losses in multiple battles with coalition forces, and the violence there subsided in recent months.
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