KHOST, Oct 7: International military planes called in by Afghan security forces killed 16 militants, apparently all foreigners, suspected of preparing an attack in the country’s east, police said on Sunday.

Six militants were injured and one was captured following the raid late on Saturday in Paktika, provincial deputy police chief Farouq Sangari told AFP.

The captured militant, an Uzbek national, told the authorities the dead were all foreign nationals, from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya, the official said.

The security forces had acted after intelligence reports that the militants were preparing to attack the headquarters of the Sarobi district, he said.

Meanwhile, soldiers with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s International Security Assistance Force killed two people in a truck that did not stop at a checkpoint in Kunar, Isaf said in a statement. A district chief told AFP three other people, among them a woman, were wounded.

Also on Saturday, soldiers killed a man who ‘behaved suspiciously’ near a military convoy in Paktia. A woman was killed in Ghazni while driving with her husband and child near a police headquarters, police official Mohammad Zaman said.

“Police guards ordered them to stop but perhaps they did not hear. The police, thinking it might be a suicide car bomber, opened fire on them and killed the woman and injured her kid,” he said.In Logar, provincial chief Ghullam Moustafa escaped an attack when guards became suspicious of a man in police uniform outside his office, he said. The man ignored warnings to stop. “Our guards shot and killed him just behind my office door,” Mr Moustafa said.—AFP