By IANS,
Kabul:At least 40 Taliban were killed and 14 injured in a cross-border attack the militants launched against police checkposts in Afghanistan’s Paktika province Saturday, a government official said.
“Dozens of militants crossed the Afghan-Pakistan border and stormed Afghan border police checkposts in Nahmat Abad area of the Gomal district at about 2 a.m. local time Saturday and the police repelled the attack. As a result 40 militants were killed and 14 injured,” Xinhua quoted a provincial government spokesman as saying.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition’s helicopters supported the police in the fight against the militants, he added.
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