FACTBOX - Security developments in Afghanistan

Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:19pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 2:30 p.m. British time on Monday:

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* KHOST - One civilian was killed in a NATO-led airstrike in eastern Khost province, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. A U.S. forces spokeswoman said NATO forces dropped one bomb in the air strike which targeted a small group of men who were carrying rocket propelled grenades. She did not have any details about civilian casualties.

KUNDUZ - One civilian was killed and another wounded when foreign troops working for the NATO-led force fired on their car in northern Kunduz province, police chief Abdul Razzaq Yaqubi said.

FARAH - Taliban gunmen attacked an Afghan army convoy in the village of Shewan in western Farah province. Two Taliban fighters were killed and two Afghan soldiers wounded, a spokesman for the Afghan army said.

KUNAR - Six civilians were killed in a roadside bomb in eastern Kunar province Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

BADGHIS - The Taliban hanged a man they accused of being a government spy in Bala Morghab district of northwestern Badghis province Saturday, a police spokesman said.

(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin, Hamid Shalizi and Sharafuddin Sharafyar; Editing by Dean Yates)

 

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