11 insurgents killed, 12 injured in Afghanistan

11 insurgents killed, 12 injured in Afghanistan

Eleven insurgents have been killed and 12 others injured when Afghan and NATO-led Coalition forces launched 12 joint operations in different Afghan provinces over the past 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

"Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan army and Coalition forces carried out 12 joint operations in Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul, Logar, and Paktika province over the past 24 hours, killing 11 armed insurgents and wounding 12 other armed insurgents," the ministry said in a statement.

ANP also detained 18 suspected militants besides seizing a handful of weapons and ammunition in the same operations, the statement added.

Separately, ANP also discovered and defused 15 anti-vehicle mines and 25 mortar mine fuses as a result of separate operations in southern Zabul and eastern Paktia province.

Afghan officials often use the word "insurgents" referring to Taliban, however, Taliban militants have yet to make comments.

Taliban militants claimed of responsibility for a suicide car bomb on a coalition convoy in capital city of Kabul on Sunday that left 13 U.S. soldiers and civilian employees with the NATO-led Coalition forces and four Afghans dead in a deadliest attack on foreign troops in Afghan capital of Kabul.

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KABUL, Oct. 30 (Xinhua)