Monitoring Desk
KABUL: Seventy-one militants have been killed, 49 injured and five suspected individuals had been arrested in security forces operations in different provinces, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Friday.
The casualties inflicted to the insurgents in ground operations and airstrikes which happened in Nangarhar, Kapesa, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Kandahar, Daikundi, Farah, Badghis, Faryab and Helmand provinces in the past 24 hours, a statement from the Ministry of Defence said.
Twenty-five militants have been killed, 13 injured, a militants hideout and a training centre were captured in the Khakrez and Shah Walikot districts of Kandahar province.
Eight rebels were killed and 22 others injured in the Bala Murghab district of Badghis province, seven rebels were killed, three others injured and five suspected arrested in Kapesa’s Najrab district and in Helmand’s Nad Ali district six rebels were killed, five others injured and a motorcycle seized.
In addition, four Haqani Network militants were killed and a motorcycle seized in the Sarobi district of Paktika province. In Farah’s Pushtroad district four rebels were killed and two others injured.
In Ghazni’s Qarabagh district three militants were killed and four others injured, two more insurgents were killed and a vehicle destroyed in the Paktia’s Zurmat district.
Two Daesh rebels were killed in the Pachir Agam district of Nangarhar, their hideouts were destroyed and weapons captured. (Pajhwok)
