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    Primary Navigation Secondary Navigation Search: Nearly 60 militants killed in southern Afghanistan Tue Oct 7, 9:14 AM ET KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan security forces killed nearly 60 militants during separate clashes in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military and a police official said Tuesday. Violence has surged in the war-torn country with some 3,800 people, a third of them civilians, killed as a result of the conflict by the end of July this year, according to the United Nations. U.S.-led coalition and Afghan security forces killed 43 militants during heavy fighting in Qalat district of southern Zabul province Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement Tuesday. "ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces ) and coalition forces on a patrol received heavy weapons, machine gun and sniper fire from militants in multiple locations," the U.S. military said in a statement. The combined forces responded with small arms fire , rocket propelled grenades and close air support , killing the militants, it said. No Afghan or U.S.-led troops were killed or wounded during incident, it said. In a separate incident, Afghan and international troops killed 16 Taliban insurgents and wounded six more during a gun battle in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Monday, provincial police chief Asadullah Sherzad told Reuters. (Writing by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Bill Tarrant) 




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