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Taliban Claim Eighteen Opponents Killed
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
Afghan News Network

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- NNI
Taliban have claimed that eighteen of their opponents have been killed in two blasts in Bagram and Sang-e-Bureda.

Radio Kabul reports that a powerful explosion took place in the military operational center of General Baba Jan in the vicinity of 40th Corps at Bagram killing twelve enemy men and injuring a number of others.

It quoted military sources as saying that the cause of the explosion is mutual differences. The blast caused damage to a number of buildings as well. It may be recalled that family members of General Baba Jan were also living in the said area and General Baba Jan might have also been killed. The Commander of Bagram frontline, Amir Khan Haqqani told that the explosion was so powerful that it smashed panes of the buildings located near the frontline. He said that the killed and wounded were airlifted.

According to another report, six enemy men were killed when a landmine they were planting exploded in Sang-e-Bureda area in Kapisa province.
(Afghan News Network News Source)
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