By RIA Novosti,
Kabul : Ten Taliban militants have been killed and over 50 wounded in an airstrike in central Afghanistan’s province of Vardak, a spokesman for the province’s governor said on Tuesday.
The spokesman said that on Monday Afghanistan’s security forces had received information that Taliban militants were planning an attack on the administrative center of the province and decided to deliver a preventive airstrike.
“An aircraft dropped a one-ton bomb on the militants’ positions, killing 10 Taliban fighters and wounding over 50,” the spokesman said.
He added that as a result of the ground operation which followed the airstrike the security forces seized a significant amount of weapons and ammunition.
The radical Islamic Taliban group, ousted from power in Afghanistan after a U.S.-led military operation in 2001, has stepped up its activities over the past year, with an increase in suicide bombings and other attacks.