KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least eight insurgents affiliated with the Taliban group have been killed in the troubled Kunduz province over the past 24 hours, officials said Wednesday.
"Five insurgents have been killed and six others wounded, when the militants attacked a police checkpoint in Momin Dara area of Dasht-e-Archi district of the province on Tuesday, triggering a gun battle which lasted for a while," district governor Nasruddin Nazari told Xinhua.
Similarly, the security forces, in a crackdown on Taliban hideouts, have killed three militants and injured four others in Khan Abad district over the period, a local official, Qudratullah Safi, said.
Sporadic fighting has been continuing between security forces and armed militants elsewhere in the said districts, as the government forces have been fighting to wipe out militants, the officials asserted.
Taliban militants who are in control of parts of the restive Kunduz province have not commented yet.
