KABUL, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Scores have been killed in the past two days as fightings in the conflict-battered Afghanistan intensified, officials said Thursday.
Taliban militants, who have adopted aggressive approaches in their latest offensives against government forces, targeted Burka district in the northern Baghlan province early Thursday, killing security personnel and setting on fire the main bazaar in the isolated district, said army spokesman in the northern region Ghulam Hazrat Karimi.
According to Karimi, 15 militants and two police officers had been killed and nearly 10 others from both sides injured in the fighting which lasted for a few hours.
Confirming the bloody fighting for the control of Burka district, district governor Mawlawi Shamsudin Shahab told Xinhua that the insurgents stormed the main bazaar in Burka district in the wee hours of Thursday and burned the entire bazaar in hours.
The official also confirmed that Taliban gained ground around district headquarters to launch more attacks.
Earlier, the armed militant group launched coordinated offensives in Khak-e-Safid, Pushtrod and Bala Blok districts of the western Farah province late Wednesday night, inflicting casualties on security personnel.
A local official on the condition of anonymity told Xinhua that the Taliban attack on a police base in Bala Blok district Wednesday night left 40 police dead.
Meanwhile, Dadullah Qani, a member of Farah's Provincial Council, has confirmed that 30 police personnel lost their lives in Taliban attack on Wednesday night in Khak-e-Safid district.
More than three dozen more fighters from both sides, according to officials, have been killed in the northern Kunduz and eastern Ghazni provinces over the past two days, officials confirmed.
Both the government forces and Taliban militants, according to local observers, would do their best to gain more ground ahead of snowfall in Afghanistan.
Observers also said that both sides have been attempting to gain more grounds and secure upper hand before entering any peace talks in the future.
