(AhlulBayt News Agency) - More than 40 people were killed in an attack conducted by Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, media reported Saturday, citing a police representative.
According to the Anadolu news agency, police spokesman Zia Durani said that the Taliban attacked a police station located in Maiwand District of Kandahar Province, killing 43 people, including 16 police officers.
The attack was conducted by four columns on militants, and it was repulsed due to the arrived additional forces.
Afghanistan is suffering from the activity of Taliban, a terrorist group formed in the 1990s.
The crisis in the country prompted the emergence of local cells of other terrorist organizations such as the ISIS terrorist group.
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source : Sputnik
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21 January 2017
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More than 40 people were killed in an attack conducted by Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, media reported Saturday, citing a police representative.