From Xinhuanet
KABUL, June 16 (Xinhua) -- A cleanup operation conducted by Afghan security forces on Monday claimed the lives of five Taliban insurgents including their commander in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, a senior police officer said Tuesday.
"Afghan police and army back by troops from Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) of Germany, conducted an operation in Gul Tiapa area, northwestern of Kunduz city, resultantly Shaikh Abdul and his four followers were killed," deputy provincial police Chief Abdul Rahman Haqtash told Xinhua.
Haqtash said that three more Taliban fighters' sustained injuries in the firefight lasted for four hours.
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