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Afghanistan: Two Taliban among three killed in Jalalabad attack
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KABUL, 23 September 2021, (TON): Security sources and witnesses said “two Taliban fighters and a civilian were killed by gunmen who attacked a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan.”
The attack in Jalalabad city is the latest on Taliban targets in Nangarhar province, which for years was the main operating base of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan chapter.
A security source and witnesses said unidentified gunmen in a rickshaw attacked a checkpoint in Ghawchak district of Jalalabad and killed two Taliban guards and a civilian bystander.
A Taliban official confirmed the attack, but said the dead were all civilians.
In another incident, local residents told AFP that two Taliban fighters were injured while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device in Jalalabad.
Further details were not immediately available.
Islamic State-Khorasan, the local branch of the terrorist group, claimed responsibility for several weekend attacks in Jalalabad that killed at least two people.
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