ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 Kyodo An Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 Kyodo

An Afghan restraint employee was killed and five others injured when a motorcade of Afghan command employees was attacked by Taliban rebels at Dasht-e-Bakwa in Farah Province in southwestern Afghanistan forward Thursday, Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.

It said that Farah provincial Gov Abdul Haq accused Taliban for attacking the accompany consisting of eight vehicles leap for Hirat from Kandahar and claimed that pair of the attackers were arrested.

The Pakistan-based novels agency said that the Afghan who died in the attack was an employee of the fire brigade department while the five injured employee were hospitalized in Kandahar.

The Taliban command was toppled during the U war forward Afghanistan in late 2001 following the family 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

still surviving Taliban rebels are still active in the country

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