KANDAHAR, Sept 26: A senior commander from Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.

Maulvi Ghafar was killed along with two followers in an ambush in the Char Cheno district of Uruzgan late on Saturday while walking to a district village, said provincial governor Jan Mohammad Khan.

But Taliban officials denied the report, saying although two Taliban fighters had been killed, Ghafar was unhurt and that four Afghan National Army soldiers were killed in the incident.

Maulvi Khan also said that Char Cheno district chief, Malem Wali Jan, was killed during an overnight Taliban attack on a joint US and Afghan forces convoy. -Reuters