Taliban Militants killed Five Policemen in Afghanistan

By Bimbo Ogunnaike with agency report

A local official,Qudratullah Safi , has disclosed that Taliban militants launched an attack on security checkpoints in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, killing five policemen.

Safi added that in the deadly offensive, which occurred at 02:00 a.m. local time at police checkpoints in Tepa Akhtar area of the restive Khan Abad district, eight more police personnel have gone missing.

Taliban fighters have also suffered casualties, he asserted, but could not give exact figure.

The Taliban militants who have intensified activities since April are yet to make comment on the attack.

It would be recalled that  25 people including 15 militants and 10 security personnel have been confirmed dead as a clash broke out in Eshkamish district of northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province last Friday.

The clash erupted after a group of Taliban fighters stormed security checkpoints in Khawja Bandkasha area of the restive district in the early hours of Friday, triggering fierce fighting which lasted for two hours. As a result, 15 militants and 10 security personnel were killed.

Three other security personnel sustained injuries

Confirming the fighting, Takhar’s provincial police spokesman Abdul Khalil Asir disclosed that six of the security personnel killed in the fighting belonged to the national police.

Asir also asserted that the Taliban militants fled away after suffering casualties.