52 Militants Killed in Battle, NATO Says
NATO and Afghan troops killed 52 militants in a weekend clash in Charchino, and three Afghan officials traveling to investigate the burning of a school were killed by a roadside bomb, officials said.
Maj. Luke Knittig, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s International Security Assistance Force, said the militant death toll was based on a “careful assessment” of reports from the battlefield in Oruzgan province.
In Nangarhar province, the district police chief, administrator and intelligence chief were killed by a roadside bomb, an Afghan police official said.
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