By NNN-Xinhua
Kabul : Afghan troops have killed 30 Taliban insurgents, including a commander, in Afghanistan’s southern province Helmand, said a statement of the Afghan Defense Ministry, released here Thursday.
Mullah Abdul Bari and 29 of his men were killed on Wednesday in a five-hour operation supported by air force and conducted in MusaQala and Kajaki districts of the troubled Helmand province, the ministry said.
It said 12 more insurgents were detained during the operation.
Afghan troops have also sized a large number of arms and ammunitions besides destroying a heroin lab and discovering 500 kgnarcotics from militant hideouts, the statement added.
Taliban insurgents have yet to make comment.
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