40 taliban Terrorists Killed

US forces killed up to 40 taliban terrorists in the Helmand province. Also, a suicide bomber killed 24 people in Deh Rawood. AFP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 24 people and wounding more than two dozen others, police said.

The blast came as international and Afghan security forces battled militants on several fronts, with the US-led coalition announcing it had killed at least 40 insurgents in an ongoing operation in the volatile south.

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On Sunday, a suicide attacker with bombs strapped to his body rammed a motorbike into a police vehicle in a bazaar in Uruzgan province, causing an explosion that ripped through several shops, a witness said.

Twenty civilians and four policemen were killed in the blast in Deh Rawood, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of Kabul, said Uruzgan police chief Juma Gul Hemat, adding that 27 wounded people were being treated in hospital.

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The US-led coalition, helping Afghanistan fight the extremists, meanwhile announced that it had killed at least 40 militants in an operation still under way in the southern province of Helmand.

The fighting started on Saturday after militants ambushed an Afghan and international security patrol in the province's volatile Sangin district, it said in a statement.

"The ensuing fight led ANSF (Afghanistan National Security Forces) and coalition forces to return fire and call for precision air strikes," it said.

"At least 40 militants have been killed in the last two days, while over 30 enemy boats

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and several ... bridges were also destroyed on the Helmand River." A soldier with the same unit was killed by a bomb blast Sunday, the coalition announced earlier.