Afghanistan Taliban Crisis LIVE Updates Assailants struck Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least two fighters and three civilians in the concluding violence since the group’s expropriation of the country inmid-August.
According to the Associated Press, in one attack, snipers opened fire on a Taliban vehicle at a imported gas station in the parochial capital of Jalalabad, killing two fighters and a gas station attendant, substantiations said. A child was also killed, they added.
Another child was killed and two Taliban were wounded in a separate attack — a bombing of another vehicle. Another bombing of a Taliban vehicle in Jalalabad also wounded a person in, although it was unclear if that person was a Taliban officer or not.
The testaments spoke on condition of nowheresville for fear of retaliation.
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