Fighting resumes after three-day ceasefire, 31 Afghans killed

An Afghan scribe takes photos inside a mosque after a bomb explosion in Shakar Dara district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Pic/AP/PTI

Fighting in Afghanistan resumed with 31 Afghans, mostly militants, killed in the insurgency-battered Asian country on Sunday after a three-day ceasefire observed with the start of Eid al-Fitr on Thursday to enable celebrations of the end of the Muslim fasting month Ramadan, officials said.

Mohammad Zaman Hamdard, the spokesman for provincial police in the southern Helmand province, has accused the Taliban militants of violating the ceasefire, saying the Taliban fighters attacked security checkpoints on Friday, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr festival, the Xinhua news agency reported. Hamdard said that the security forces after the end of the three-day truce targeted the militants from the ground and air on Sunday killing 21 militants and injuring 13 others.

In the meantime, a roadside mine planted by militants struck a car in Khwaja Omari district of the southeastern Ghazni province early on Sunday killing three civilians and injuring three others, district chief Ahmad Zia Yaqubi said.Taliban attacks on security checkpoints in Nasay district of the northern Badakhshan province were repulsed on Sunday and the militants fled away after leaving seven bodies behind, army officer Abdul Razaq told said. Four other militants and two security personnel were injured in the fighting, the officer added.

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