Taliban seize southern Afghanistan district
Afp, Kandahar
More than 100 Taliban militants seized control of a mountainous district in southern Afghanistan's Zabul province early Friday, the provincial governor's spokesman said. In a separate incident the Taliban killed five security guards in an attack on a company working on a highway near Qalat, the capital city of the same province, spokesman Ghulam Shah Alikhil told AFP. Police made a "tactical" withdrawal from the remote Khak Afghan district after the Islamist rebels attacked the district headquarters from several directions at once, Alikhil said. There were no immediate plans in place to retake the district, he said.
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