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Factional fighting claims 20 lives in northeast Afghanistan

At least 20 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in a fierce infighting between two Afghan warlords in a northeastern province of Afghanistan, the state-runtelevision reported on Saturday evening.


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At least 20 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in a fierce infighting between two Afghan warlords in a northeastern province of Afghanistan, the state-run television reported on Feb. 7 evening.

The armed clash, which erupted late Thursday in the far-flung Argon district of Badakhshan province and was still going on, has forced many local residents to flee their homes for safer places, Kabul Television reported.

Without mentioning the reason of the conflict, the report said that troops loyal to the police chief and the district administrator in Argon were involved in the bloody fighting, adding that local people had appealed for immediate intervention from the central government to control the exhausting situation.

Much of Afghanistan, especially rural areas, has been plagued either by insurgency of the ousted Taliban movement or factional fighting between rival commanders for the last two years, as President Hamid Karzai's US-backed government failed to consolidate its control over the whole country.

Over 100 people were killed and dozens injured due to factional rivalry and infighting among various warlords in some parts of the country last year.

In a bid to extend its authority beyond the capital city, the Karzai government has launched an ambitious program to collect heavy weapons and disarm militia troops loyal to different warlords, including Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Tajik rival Mohammad Atta in north Afghanistan.

The disarmament program, supported by the United Nations and donor nations, is expected to complete within three years, Afghan officials said.

Source: Xinhua


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