4 killed by own explosives 2 insurgent commanders killed in Kunduz
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CHARIKAR/KUNDUZ (PAN): Four people, including two bomb makers, were killed when an improvised explosives device went off prematurely inside a house in central Parwan province on Friday, a police official said on Saturday. The two bomb makers were at work on making an IED Friday night when it exploded in a house in the Dadu neighborhood on the outskirts of Charikar, the provincial capital of Parwan, the deputy police chief, Zia-ur-Rahman Faiz, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The bombers, the owner of the house identified as Mullah Jan Aqa and a local resident died in the explosion, while Aqa’s 10-year-old son was wounded, Faiz said. Police seized one Kalashnikov rifle, two hand grenades and a large amount of explosives from the house, Faiz said. The head of Parwan Civil Hospital, Dr. Abdul Wali Qadari, confirmed receiving two dead bodies and a wounded person, he said.Meanwhile, two militant commanders were killed during a joint operation by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan forces in the Dasht-i-Archi district of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Saturday.A third militant commander was wounded while a fourth was arrested in the operation conducted after people complained about robbery by members of the group in the region, the police spokesman, Syed Sarwar Husaini, said.The operation have cleared the area out of robbers who menaced people traveling along roads through the region, a shopkeeper at the district centre, Zai-ur-Rahman, said.“I was personally twice beaten up by robbers who stole my mobile and money,” he said.Police have established five checkpoints along the roads in the district in order to prevent militants and robbers from harassing people Husaini said.
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