3 dead in airstrike, as many injured in blast

SHARAN/JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Five insurgents, including a notorious commander, have been killed in an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike in the Orgun district of southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Friday.

Elsewhere, three people were wounded in a bomb blast in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, where a counterinsurgency operation in Khogyani and several other districts concluded a day-earlier.

Paktika police chief, Brig. Gen. Nabi Jan Mullakhel, told Pajhwok Afghan News the air raid was conducted by ISAF troops late on Thursday in the Pirkoti locality of the district near the Pakistan border.

Sartor, a notorious rebel commander, and two of his accomplices were killed and three others wounded in the attack, he added.

But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, without specifically saying anything about the airstrike, said two policemen had been killed in a roadside bomb attack in Sar Rawza district.

Separately, three people were wounded in an explosion in Jalalabad, a statement from the governor’s office said. The explosion took place late on Thursday at the Laghman Zherai bus stand.

It said the device exploded close to the traffic police office, wounding two policemen and a civilian. Soon after the blast, police rushed to the scene and started investigations.

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