17 Afghan security personnel killed in separate Taliban terrorist attacks

Seventeen army and security personnel were killed in separate attacks by Taliban terrorist militants in two Afghan provinces, Afghan officials said on Wednesday.

Seventeen army and security personnel were killed in separate attacks by Taliban terrorist militants in two Afghan provinces, Afghan officials said on Wednesday.

The Taliban attacked a checkpoint in the northern province of Jowzjan, killing 12 members of the security forces, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor, Azar Jawzjani.

The official also said that 5 others were wounded in the attack, which occurred in the “Qajeh” area, and that the armed men took 4 others hostage in the wake of the attack.

Faqir Muhammad Juzjani, commander of the Afghan police in the northern province of Kunduz, said that the militants also attacked an Afghan National Army checkpoint on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Kunduz, killing 5 people, while injuring at least 7 others who were injured in the accident.

At the same time, a spokesman for the Afghan governor of the province, Arif Nuri, said that a mortar explosion in Ghazni province, in the southeast of the country, killed 4 children, while 3 others sustained injures.

Nuri said that children found the shell in the district of “De Yak” in the province on Tuesday, and tampered with it, causing it to explode. 

The Afghan government stated that during the past weeks, about 422 members of the Afghan forces were killed or injured across the country in at least 220 Taliban attacks.