Airstrikes broken a well being clinic and highschool within the capital of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a provincial council member mentioned Sunday. In northern Kunduz province, Taliban fighters made extra positive factors.
A Defence Ministry assertion confirmed that airstrikes had been carried out in components of the town of Lashkar Gah. It mentioned forces focused Taliban positions, killing 54 fighters and wounding 23 others. It made no point out of a clinic or faculty being bombed.
Majid Akhund, deputy chairman of the Helmand provincial council, mentioned airstrikes hit a well being clinic and a faculty within the metropolis’s seventh police district late Saturday. But he mentioned the world is beneath Taliban management so any casualties may have been attributable to the Taliban there.
A Taliban surge has intensified as US and NATO troops wrap up their withdrawal from the nation. As Taliban assaults improve, Afghan safety forces and authorities troops have retaliated with airstrikes aided by the United States. The preventing has raised rising considerations about civilian casualties.
Dr Ahmad Khan Weyar, an official from the Helmand public well being division, mentioned a nurse was killed when an airstrike hit a well being clinic and a guard was wounded.
“American invaders bombed and destroyed another hospital and school in Helmand,” the Taliban mentioned in an announcement. It mentioned Safyano Hospital and Muhammad Anwar Khan highschool had been bombed.
The clinic in Lashkar Gah was providing companies largely to nomads who had been passing via the world, in response to Akhund, however in current days the world was beneath Taliban management and the Taliban might have been handled there.
Heavy preventing has taken place in and round Lashkar Gah and each US and Afghan authorities air forces have performed airstrikes within the metropolis. The Taliban management 9 of the town’s 10 police districts.
In northern Afghanistan, the Taliban took management Sunday of components of the capital of Kunduz province, council member Ghulam Rabani Rabani mentioned.
Rabani mentioned most components of Kunduz metropolis had been beneath the management of the Taliban, with preventing across the governor’s workplace and police headquarters. The principal jail constructing in Kunduz was beneath Taliban management, he mentioned.
On Saturday, Taliban fighters entered the capital of Jawzjan province after sweeping via 9 of 10 districts within the province. Several different of the nation’s 34 provincial capitals are threatened as Taliban fighters sweep via massive swaths of Afghanistan at a stunning velocity.
The US Central Command says the troop withdrawal is greater than 95% full and shall be completed by Aug 31.