The head of the provincial council, Attaullah Afghan told media that the attack took place on Thursday while Afghan police were fighting the Taliban just outside the provincial capital of
Lashkar Gah. The official confirmed that at least 17 policemen were killed in the airstrike which was carried by the Coalition Forces by mistake.
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Lashkar Gah [Afghanistan], Mar 23 (ANI): Four people were killed and 31 sustained injuries in twin blasts in a stadium in Afghanistan's
Lashkar Gah on Saturday.
LASHKAR GAH:Dozens of peace activists, including women, have set up tents in the Afghan province of Helmand after a car bomb killed more than a dozen people outside a sports stadium last week.In a rare development, women from the ethnic Pashtun-dominated region began protesting alongside men in the provincial capital
Lashkar Gah on Tuesday, saying that they would later march to a Taliban-controlled district to demand an end to the war.
Meanwhile, an explosion killed and injured scores of people in the city of
Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's restive South, officials said on Friday.
LASHKAR GAH: Taliban militants have attacked an Afghan army post and killed 18 government soldiers, the defence ministry said on Saturday, while a suicide bomber in the capital killed one person and wounded six.
The deadly assault came days after a Taliban suicide bomber killed five civilians and wounded dozens of others, mainly children, when he detonated a car filled with explosives at a police headquarters in
Lashkar Gah, Helmand's capital.
The explosion near the Kabul Bank in the provincial capital of
Lashkar Gah also wounded at least 60 people, he said.
Aqa Noor Kentoz, provincial police chief, said Saturday that all four had been killed the night before at a checkpoint on the outskirts of
Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.