Seven die in Taliban attack on road crew
At least seven bodies have been recovered after a Taliban attack on a road construction crew in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.
The seven were shot, said a spokesman at Lashkar Gah hospital.
A provincial police chief said they were investigating reports that as many as 35 people were killed in the fighting in Sangin district. He said the casualties could not be confirmed because the area was under Taliban control.
An army spokesman reported that 21 people from the construction crew and 13 Taliban had been killed.
Meanwhile Nato reported that three more international soldiers – including one American – had been killed in the south. Nationalities of two of the victims were not released.
Officials said they died in a roadside bombing today and the American was killed on Thursday.
The latest deaths brought to at least 18 the number of American troops killed so far this month and 31 for the entire multinational force.
Nato also said a deputy commander in an al-Qaida linked insurgent group was captured in an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan that claimed the life of a woman.
