Over dozen Daesh terrorists slain in eastern Afghanistan
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This file photo purportedly shows a number of militants being trained at a Daesh terror camp in an unknown location in Afghanistan.
More than a dozen members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in operations by Afghan security forces against the extremists in the country’s Eastern Province of Nangarhar.
According to Press TV, in a statement released on Sunday, the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that the operations were carried out in the Achin and Dih Bala districts of the province, located some 150 kilometers (86 miles) east of the capital, Kabul.
The statement added that 13 Daesh Takfiris were killed during the operations, while seven more sustained injuries.
Daesh terrorists had killed six police officers, including a district police chief, in the same Afghan province a day earlier.
Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the terrorists attacked the administrative headquarters in Haska Mina district early on Saturday, and shot the policemen dead.
On April 14, Afghan military aircraft carried out an airstrike and killed dozens of Daesh members in Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan. The Afghan army’s public relations directorate said 42 Daesh terrorists were killed in the raid and a training center was destroyed.
Nangarhar has been witnessing a rise in the number of Daesh terrorists in some of its districts in recent months.
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