Sixty Taliban militants on motorbikes and pickup trucks overran a district centre in central Afghanistan overnight, firing on the town from a mountain outlook, pushing out police and cutting off the town’s main road, official said on Tuesday.
The district, in Day Kundi province, is the third that militants have overrun in the last week. Two districts in the western province of Farah are also in Taliban hands.
Day Kundi’s Governor Sultan Ali Uruzgani said police retreated from Kajran district late on Monday night when 60 Taliban on motorbikes and trucks stormed the town.
