Afghan police kill 11 Taliban militants over a day

KABUL - Units of Afghan police have killed 11 Taliban militants during a series of operations and arrested 19 others over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Tuesday.

During the operations which carried out in Kandahar, Nangarhar, Laghman, Zabul, Paktiya, Uruzgan, Herat and Helmand provinces, the police also discovered a number of arms and ammunitions, the statement added.

It did not say if there were any casualties on the police personnel. Taliban militants have yet to make comment.