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KABUL, Oct 5: Afghan security forces killed seven suspected Taliban militants during a two-hour gun battle in the south-east in the latest violence before Oct 9 polls, an official said on Tuesday.
The suspected Taliban fighters were killed on Monday after ambushing a battalion of government troops some 40km east of Tirin Kot, the capital of troubled Uruzgan province.
"Seven Taliban were killed during the fighting which lasted for two hours," provincial administrative chief Fazil Rabi told AFP by phone.
