KABUL, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police backed by the national army have killed more than three dozen Taliban militants during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement released here on Wednesday.
"Units of national police backed by the army and the NATO-led coalition forces have killed 37 Taliban rebels throughout the country over the past 24 hours," the statement said.
According to the statement, during the operations which had been carried out in Helmand, Nuristan, Wardak, Laghman, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Herat and Nimroz provinces, in addition to killing 37 militants, 17 more Taliban fighters sustained injuries and 13 others were arrested.
It did not say if there were any casualties on the security personnel during the operations.
Meantime, Taliban outfit in a counter-claim has rejected the report and in a statement sent to media outlets, the armed outfit claimed that dozens of Afghan and foreign security personnel had been killed over the past 24 hours in the country.
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