In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan, Ministry of Interior reported.
The operations were conducted in Kunar, Badakhshan and Nimroz provinces, as a result nine armed Taliban were killed, 17 wounded and one other armed Talib was arrested by Afghan National Security Forces.
Also, during these operations, Afghan National Police discovered and confiscated some amount of light and heavy round ammunitions and IEDs.
During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused nine different types of mines placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Helmand, Kandahar, Faryab and Baghlan provinces.