TALUQAN, Afghanistan, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Five civilians were killed and three others wounded overnight as a result of Taliban militants' shelling in the northern province of Takhar, police said Thursday.
"The insurgents fired several rounds of mortar shell on security checkpoints in Lalah Guzar locality, Khwaja Bahawuddin district last night," Mahfozullah Akbari, police spokesman of the 808 Spin Zaar Police Zone based in the region, told Xinhua.
"But the shelling struck the nearby houses and as a result, five innocent civilians were martyred and three others wounded," he said.
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