KABUL: Separate bombs claimed by Taliban insurgents struck Afghan security force vehicles killing four men, officials said Saturday, as the NATO-led force said 16 Taliban were killed overnight.A roadside bomb struck an Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle early Saturday in the southern province of Zabul, the defence ministry told. "Two ANA were martyred and four were wounded," it said. Another bomb hit an Afghan police vehicle in the same district on Friday, killing two policemen and wounding four, the interior ministry said in a statement.A spokesman for the Taliban, Yousuf Ahmadi, said his group was responsible for both attacks. A military operation that included air strikes by international warplanes was meanwhile launched in the eastern province of Paktia after the Taliban attacked a government district headquarters early Saturday, a government spokesman said. Police fought back in the Ahmad Khel district and four were wounded, provincial government spokesman Rohullah Samoon told. The Afghan forces asked their international military counterparts for help and they sent aircraft to bomb the area, he said. Nine bodies had been recovered and one wounded militant arrested, "confessing" he was a member of the Taliban from Pakistan, Samoon said.The media office of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed there was an operation in Paktia overnight and approximately 16 Taliban were killed. There were no details.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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