November 01, 2007	Thursday	Shawwal 19, 1428

KANDAHAR, Oct 31: Afghan and Nato forces have killed 50 Taliban rebels in three days of clashes and surrounded 200 others who occupied civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, police said on Wednesday.

Civilians were fleeing on motor bikes, tractors, cars and animals piled with their belongings amid the fighting in three villages in Arghandab district, just outside Kandahar, provincial police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib said.

“Fifty Taliban have been killed, around 50 have been wounded and 12 Taliban, including two wounded, have been arrested so far,” Saqib said, adding that authorities did not have the bodies of the rebel fighters.—AFP