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Demining vehicles attacked in southeast Afghanistan
Kandahar, May 06: Two people were wounded in an attack on demining vehicles in southeast Afghanistan, government officials and police said today.
Kandahar, May 06: Two people were wounded in an attack on demining vehicles in southeast Afghanistan, government officials and police said today.
"Yesterday (Monday) evening a demining vehicle was attacked by some unknown people, probably Taliban," Hameedullah Tokhi, the governor of Zabul province, where the incident occurred, told a news agency.
He said two people were injured in the attack near Shahjoy 270 kms southwest of Kabul.
Police in neighbouring Kandahar province confirmed two people were injured in the attack but said two demining vehicles had been shot at. The injured were being treated in hospital in Zabul's provincial capital Qalat.
An Italian tourist was shot dead near Shahjoy last month in an attack local officials blamed on Taliban and al-Qaeda extremists.
An Afghan driver working for the Afghan development agency demining organisation was killed and two passengers wounded Saturday in an ambush in Sayd Abad district, 70 kms south of Kabul on the main road to Kandahar.
Governor Tokhi said a group of suspected Taliban also a ttacked a government vehicle yesterday morning in Mirzan, 80 kms northwest of Qalat.
"As a result of the exchange of fire the commander of the Taliban attackers was injured and arrested," he said, adding there were no government casualties.
"After the attack on the government vehicle, other government soldiers went to help," he said.
Bureau Report
He said two people were injured in the attack near Shahjoy 270 kms southwest of Kabul.
Police in neighbouring Kandahar province confirmed two people were injured in the attack but said two demining vehicles had been shot at. The injured were being treated in hospital in Zabul's provincial capital Qalat.
An Italian tourist was shot dead near Shahjoy last month in an attack local officials blamed on Taliban and al-Qaeda extremists.
An Afghan driver working for the Afghan development agency demining organisation was killed and two passengers wounded Saturday in an ambush in Sayd Abad district, 70 kms south of Kabul on the main road to Kandahar.
Governor Tokhi said a group of suspected Taliban also a ttacked a government vehicle yesterday morning in Mirzan, 80 kms northwest of Qalat.
"As a result of the exchange of fire the commander of the Taliban attackers was injured and arrested," he said, adding there were no government casualties.
"After the attack on the government vehicle, other government soldiers went to help," he said.
Bureau Report