Kabul(Xinhua) : Taliban insurgents have reportedly captured a district in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province, a day after they had claimed to have overrun two districts in the west.
“Taliban fighters captured Kajran district Monday night,” parliamentarian Nasrullah Sadiqizada from Daikundi told Xinhua Tuesday.
Local people said that one Taliban commander and one government soldier were killed in the fight, which lasted for a couple of hours.
Neither government officials nor Taliban fighters were immediately available for comments.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi claimed Monday that militants were in control of Gilistan and Bakwa districts in the western Farah province.
Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have claimed the lives of more than 5,500 people, mostly insurgents, so far this year in Afghanistan.