US bombs severely damaged Afghanistan's biggest dam and power station, cutting electricity to two major cities, a Taliban minister was quoted as saying by Afghan Islamic Press on Thursday.
The Kajaki hydro-electric power station in Helmand province was bombed on Wednesday afternoon and electricity supplies to the cities of Kandahar and Lashkarga have been completely halted, a Taliban official told AFP in Kabul.

But Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban education minister, told the Pakistan-based AIP that the dam has also been badly damaged.
"So far water has not started gushing out of the dam but any further bombing will destroy the dam. It may cause widespread flooding, putting at risk the lives of thousands of people," Muttaqi was quoted as saying.
Earlier, the Taliban said they had repulsed a major opposition attack Thursday on their positions in a key valley in northern Afghanistan, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. Bureau Report