Nato attack follows Taliban raid
Many fighters believed killed in the southwest while a suicide blast hits Kabul.
In initial fighting two Afghan soldiers and a policeman were killed and several others wounded.
“Later, Isaf aircraft bombed the fort and 30 Taliban including their ranking commanders were killed,” Behnam said.
“There is no one left inside the fort.”
Police account
Mohammad Nabi Popal, Farah’s deputy police chief, said 30 Taliban members were killed along with one policeman.
“They were mostly Taliban from Helmand and some Pakistani Taliban who infiltrated our province from neighbouring Helmand province,” he said.
Thursday’s suicide bombing in Kabul killed three Afghan civilians [AFP] |
Popal said on Thursday that Isaf jets also bombed another area of Farah overnight after the Taliban attacked police, wounding three of them.
“Heavy casualties were inflicted to the Taliban but we don’t have confirmed figures,” he said.
Popal said “up to 15 may have been killed”.
Isaf did not immediately comment.
The Nato force has been carrying out intense operations in Helmand over the past weeks, saying it has caused significant losses to the Taliban, particularly in the Garmser district on the border with Pakistan.