Meanwhile, Taliban attacks on a district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand province killed at least 24 police officers over the past two days, an Afghan official said on Sunday.
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Yesterday also 36 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in a military operation by the Afghan National Army here following an attack on July 23 in which 80 persons were killed and over 300 wounded.
Afghan doctors assist a injured man who is wounded from a bomb attack, in Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2016.
Heavy fighting in the Helmand district of Afghanistan has resulted with shifting control to Taliban.
Earlier several other districts too came in control of the Taliban that includes Marjah, Garmser, Sangin and Dishu.
Kabul’s deputy chief of police says the blast happened east of the city’s global airport.
Precise casualty figures can’t be confirmed as bodies litter the ground and fighting was still underway, he added. The Taliban regularly exaggerates the impact of attacks.
Kanashin is a major drug smuggling route.
Helmand produces most of the world’s opium, which helps fund the Taliban.
In its quarterly report to Congress, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar) observed that in the second quarter of this year, the Taliban gained new territory and now control 19 of the country’s approximately 400 governing districts.
On Friday, a USA federal oversight agency reported the Taliban was in direct control of four districts in Helmand.
The official said the government compounds in Nad Ali district have been surrounded by the militants.
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But the Sigar report noted that the Afghan government experienced some success with the Hizb-e-Islami militant group, releasing a final draft for a peace agreement that received the approval of the High Peace Council.
