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At least three soldiers were killed and 52 others were wounded as fighting between government security forces and Islamic State-inspired militants continued on the eve of Eid’l Adha here, a military official confirmed Friday.
Joint Task Force Marawi and Western Mindanao Command Spokesperson Captain Jo-ann Petinglay told the Inquirer that the fighting in the frontline was intense the whole day on Thursday.
A suicide bombing in a busy commercial area in Kabul near a string of banks and not far from the U.S. Embassy killed at least five people on Tuesday, Afghan officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Elsewhere, at least 13 civilians were killed in an overnight airstrike by the Afghan air force that targeted the Taliban in western Herat province.
Nine Maoists, including one from the Dandakaranya Special zone (DKSZ) member Ganesh Ueke’s gunner and two from the South Bastar Battalion, surrendered before the police on Sunday.
The Maoists surrendered before the Bastar Police Range and officers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
Myanmar security forces fired mortars and machine guns at terrified Rohingya villagers fleeing northern Rakhine state for Bangladesh on Saturday, according to an AFP reporter and a border official at the scene, as clashes which have killed scores continued for a second day.
The fighting, concentrated around remote border villages, is between suspected Rohingya militants and Myanmar security forces, but is increasingly sweeping in civilians—from the Muslim minority as well as local Buddhists and Hindus.
At least 71 people were killed Friday in Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine State when Rohingya Muslim insurgents launched simultaneous predawn attacks on 30 security outposts, police stations and an army base, according to the government’s latest update.
It earlier said clashes broke out in Maungdaw district of northern Rakhine around 1 a.m. when “extremist Bengali terrorists” attacked security outposts and police stations in 24 separate locations in the area, which is mostly populated by minority Rohingya Muslims.
