Troops kill 60 rebels, make largest Afghan drugs bust
Afghan police officers use tractors to destroy poppy crops in Lashkar GahKABUL (AFP) — Troops killed 60 militants and seized then destroyed their largest-ever drugs haul in a four-day operation that smashed an insurgent hub in turbulent southern Afghanistan, the military said Saturday.
The operation in Helmand province, where a British soldier was killed in a separate incident on Friday, ended overnight when precision air strikes obliterated 92 tonnes of drugs.
Masses of heroin-processing chemicals and bomb-making materials collected in the sweep of Marja, southwest of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, were also destroyed by the air strikes.
"A total of 60 militants were eliminated as they mounted an ineffective and uncoordinated defence against friendly forces," a joint US and Afghan military statement said, issuing a final tally for the whole operation.
The statement said the troops had "seized the single-largest drug cache by Afghan-led forces in Afghanistan to date". LinkHere
The operation in Helmand province, where a British soldier was killed in a separate incident on Friday, ended overnight when precision air strikes obliterated 92 tonnes of drugs.
Masses of heroin-processing chemicals and bomb-making materials collected in the sweep of Marja, southwest of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, were also destroyed by the air strikes.
"A total of 60 militants were eliminated as they mounted an ineffective and uncoordinated defence against friendly forces," a joint US and Afghan military statement said, issuing a final tally for the whole operation.
The statement said the troops had "seized the single-largest drug cache by Afghan-led forces in Afghanistan to date". LinkHere
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