By Xinhua
Kabul : Afghan and foreign forces have killed 14 militants in an overnight strafing on a suspected Taliban hideout in central Afghan province of Uruzgan, while a Taliban attack on a security checkpost in neighbouring Ghazni province Tuesday left two policemen dead and four others injured.
After receiving an input that Taliban guerrillas were meeting inside a complex in Charchino district of Uruzgan, foreign troops bombarded the place Monday night, said Juma Gul Humat, provincial police commander.
“Fourteen militants were killed,” Humat said, adding that there were no casualties among civilians and the combined force during the action.
Taliban’s purported spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, however, denied the outfit had suffered casualties in the incident.
Insurgents Tuesday attacked a security check-post of a road construction company in Mangor area of Ghazni city, bordering Andar district, and killed two policemen and wounded four, deputy police commander of Ghazni province Mohammad Zaman said.
An Afghan private company started building a 24-km road in the area about eight months ago and the construction was still undergoing, Zaman said.
The Taliban has yet to make comment in this regard.
The Taliban, removed from power by the US invasion in late 2001, has waged insurgency against Afghan administration and the international troops deployed in the country.
Rising militancy-related violent incidents have killed over 5,700 people so far this year in the war-torn Afghanistan.