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KABUL, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Violent incidents including a bomb blast and gun battles have claimed six lives of both militants and police and injured seven civilians in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.
In the latest bloody incident which occurred in the northern Baghlan province one police personnel was killed and seven civilians injured, a local official said.
"The blast took place near Baghlan-e-Markazi District bazaar at around 10:30 a.m. local time today. The bomb went off when a police vehicle was passing the area as a result one police of the vehicle was killed and seven civilians including two children at nearby wounded," the district governor Gohar Khan Babri told Xinhua.
In a related incident, the security forces raided Taliban hideout in the western Herat province early Monday morning leaving five militants including a senior commander dead, police contended.
"Afghan Special Operations forces raided Taliban hideouts in Ghoryan district of Herat province early morning today triggering a gun battle during which five Taliban rebels including a senior commander Mullah Barjan were killed," provincial police spokesman Abdul Rauof Ahmadi told Xinhua.
Barjan served as head of the Taliban's military council in the western provinces, said the spokesman, adding that two other Taliban local leaders were also among those killed during the operations.
The killed leader Barjan had controlled insurgents operating in Herat and other western provinces and facilitated the movement of weapons to insurgents in the region, the official noted.
Taliban militants fighting the government have yet to make comment.
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