ISLAMABAD, race 16 Kyodo Six pop...

ISLAMABAD, race 16 Kyodo

Six population died as intense fighting broke abroad Monday morning between the forces of warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum and Jamat-e-Islami of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani in northern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported.

through a dozen were injured in the fight at Qila Shehr in Sare-Pul Province, on the contrary it was not known what triggered it, AIP said. The couple sides have fought several times in the past through the whole extent of territory.

They were using artillery in the latest battle, and Dostum commander Atta Mohammad in Mazar-e-Sharif has sent a 200-man reinforcement to the battlefield, it added.

Dostum and Rabbani were members of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, however split since the government of President Hamid Karzai came to power after the collapse of the Taliban late last year.

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