‘100 Taliban killed, hurt’

Published November 19, 2007

KANDAHAR, Nov 18: Combined Afghan, Canadian and other troops backed by gunship helicopters killed or wounded about 100 Taliban in raids on a stronghold in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.

The operation, launched on Saturday in Kandahar, also cost the lives of two Canadian troops and their interpreter, as well as an Afghan soldier.

“Our information from the area says that 100 Taliban have been killed and wounded,” Kandahar police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb told AFP.

A suicide bomber blew himself up near an ISAF vehicle in Helmand.—AFP

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