40 Police Cadets and 73 Taliban Fighters Killed in Afghanistan

June 30th, 2016

Awake Goy

nsnbc : Twin explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul, targeting a police convoy, killed at least 40, reportedly police cadets. The Taliban reportedly claimed responsibility. The bombing came as 73 Taliban fighters were killed in joint Afghani and U.S. operations in eastern Nuristan.

Forty policemen, the majority reportedly police cadets were killed in a twin bombing in the capital Kabul. About forty others have reportedly sustained injuries, and the death toll may indeed rise. A police official confirmed that “a suicide bomber targeted a vehicle belonging to the security forces in the vicinity of the Company area”.

The official said that the bus carrying police cadets was targeted on the way from the neighboring Maidan Wardak province to Kabul city. He added that another explosion took place soon after the first blast and that the second blast may also have caused death and injuries. Information about that second blast, that had just occurred, was still sketchy, he added.

A spokesman for Interior Minister Sediq Sediqi said that security services are in the process of working out the details of the terrorist attacks on a police convoy in Kabul and that updates would follow as new information becomes available. Taliban militants have reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. nsnbc could not independently verify this alleged claim of responsibility nor which particular Taliban organization or faction may have carried out the attack.

The attack was carried out one day after air strikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force and U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that at least 73 Taliban insurgents were killed in the airstrikes and operations in the Kamdish district. The MoD added that Taliban insurgents had launched the attacks from different angles but the offensive was repulsed shortly after the Afghan forces responded to the attack. The Ministry added that at least another 26 Taliban fighters had been wounded and that one DShK heavy machine gun had been destroyed. The oD described the situation in Kamdish as being “under control”.

F/AK – nsnbc 30.06.2016

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