KABUL -- A leader of the banned Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), wanted in connection with the 2009 attack in Lahore on the Sri Lankan cricket team, was among 218 militants killed recently in fighting in Afghanistan.
The fugitive Pakistani terrorist was killed in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, the Express Tribune reported October 9. Seven Pakistani police officers were killed and seven Sri Lankans wounded in the attack on the team in 2009.
At least 178 militants, including 34 fighters of "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL), were killed nationwide in Afghanistan in a 24-hour span, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said October 9, according to Afghanistan Times. The fugitive might have been one of the 178.
Eighteen soldiers were killed, the MoD added.
Separately, a bomb on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, recently injured five Afghans, including three police officers, provincial governor's spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said, according to the Afghanistan Times.
Security forces killed at least 20 Taliban and ISIL members in four days in two districts of Jawzjan Province, provincial governor's spokesman Mohammad Reza Ghafoori said October 9, according to TOLO News.
Five police officers, including a local commander, were killed, Ghafoori said.
Recent fighting in Uruzgan, Laghman and Kandahar provinces killed two security personnel and 19 Taliban, officials said October 10, according to Pajhwok Afghan News. Some of those Taliban and security personnel might have been part of the 178 militants and 18 soldiers reported killed by the Afghanistan Times.
