KABUL (Dispatches) – Ten members of the Taliban militant group were killed and six others wounded following airstrikes in two northern provinces in Afghanistan on Friday, the military confirmed on Saturday.
In Faryab province, a Taliban divisional commander and two of his subordinates were killed and two other Taliban members were wounded after Afghan Air Force (AAF) targeted a Taliban hideout in Badghisi village, Khwaja Sabz Posh district, spokesman of the army’s 209th Shaheen Corps Hanif Rezai told Xinhua.
Meanwhile, seven Taliban members were killed and four others were wounded in AAF strikes conducted on a Taliban’s base in Hazhda Bala village in Sayaad district, Sari Pul province, he said.
The Taliban have not commented yet.
Meanwhile, a father and his son were killed in a security forces’ gunfire in Afghanistan’s western Badghis province, a local official confirmed on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Friday night when the victims walking through a district road ignored signals from security forces in the restive Ab Kamari district, district chief Khudadad Tayeb told Xinhua.
Provincial council chief Abdul Aziz Baig blamed the security forces for dereliction and faulty responding to villagers, saying such incidents have repeatedly happened in Badghis.
He urged the government to conduct a thorough investigation into the case and bring the perpetrators to justice.
In a separate incident, four civilians, including a woman and two children, were wounded after a Taliban’s mortar shelling struck a house in Badghisi area in Khwaja Sabz Posh district of neighboring Faryab province on Friday, provincial police confirmed.