The district governor, Nasruddin Saadi, put the death toll at 19, with an additional 22 officers and soldiers wounded. The insurgents killed 14 police officers and militiamen in Samangan province and 17 other police officers and soldiers in Sar-i-Pul province. On Sunday, 40 members of the Afghan security forces were killed in the northern province of Baghlan when Taliban fighters overran a military base. Detailed figures are not publicly known, however, as the US military began in late 2016 to classify information on casualties among the Afghan security forces at the request of the Afghan government. He said that 17 members of the security forces died but that the Afghan Air Force arrived Monday morning.

Source: bd News24 September 11, 2018 06:11 UTC