KABUL: At least 100 Afghan security forces have been killed as troops sponsored by way of US airpower struggled to push the Taliban from embattled Ghazni city, officials stated Monday, whilst residents reported food and medicine shortages four days after preventing started.
The Afghan government stated it had despatched reinforcements to the strategic city, which lies slightly two hours pressure from Kabul at the primary freeway connecting the capital with the rustic's south. US forces in Afghanistan stated that they had been undertaking airstrikes day-to-day since the preventing started.
The assault, which the Taliban introduced late Thursday, comes because the insurgents are under increasing drive to sign up for peace talks and highlights the trouble of repelling their repeated assaults on city centres crowded with civilians, with residents some of the dead.
"About 100 security forces have lost their lives and between 20 and 30 civilians have been killed," defence minister Tariq Shah Bahrami told a press conference in Kabul, providing the primary high-level legitimate casualty determine since the insurgents entered town.
He also stated that 194 insurgents had been killed and 147 wounded.
The Taliban hastily answered, announcing the federal government's claims have been "baseless" and that talks have been "under way for their surrender".
Doctors have been struggling to treat dozens of wounded at hospitals in the eastern provincial capital, the place residents stated insurgents roamed the streets.
At a hospital in the city wounded other people might be observed groaning in agony on stretchers, whilst uncovered picket coffins stuffed with bodies have been laid at the floor.
A physician in the hospital's intensive care unit stated that they had gained over 80 dead bodies as of Sunday and had treated more than 160 sufferers, many of whom have been had been injured by way of gunshots or shrapnel.
"There are no police or soldiers to guard the hospital. They bring their wounded and then leave," the doctor, Mohammad Arif Omari, stated.
"The hospital is overwhelmed," Andrea Catta Preta, a spokeswoman for the International Red Cross in Kabul, told AFP.
With residents reporting power remained out in the city, she stated the Red Cross used to be ready to achieve the hospital on Monday all over a short lived lull in preventing, providing nearly 200 litres of gasoline for its generator and clinical provides for over 100 other people.
"Everybody is requesting assistance, so we have been doing what we can whenever we have a window of security to do something," she added.
An AFP reporter in the city stated late Sunday that militants have been going door to door and commandeering provides together with water, tea, and wheelbarrows to transport injured opponents.
Ghazni residents who arrived in Kabul after fleeing the violence told AFP that the dead bodies of militants and squaddies persisted to litter the streets, whilst government places of work have been set ablaze by way of Taliban opponents and food prices are rising.
"Everyone wanted to find a way to flee the city. Most of the people are still hiding in their basements as fighting is going from street to street," stated Ghazni journalist Fayeza Fayez, who arrived in Kabul late Sunday after fleeing town.
Communication networks in Ghazni remained most commonly down, and officials have been reticent, making any data difficult to ensure and fuelling rumours of excessive tolls. Most officials contacted by way of AFP in Ghazni and Kabul had switched their phones off.
The United Nations referred to as on all parties to admire the rights of civilians stuck in the crossfire.
The onslaught used to be the latest strive by way of the Taliban to overrun an city centre, and springs as drive will increase at the insurgents to start out peace talks with the federal government to finish the nearly 17-year-old struggle.
It used to be also the biggest tactical operation introduced by way of the Taliban since an remarkable truce in June brought preventing between security forces and the Taliban to a brief pause, providing war-weary Afghans some welcome aid.
Ghazni lies along the major Kabul-Kandahar freeway, effectively serving as a gateway between Kabul and the militant strongholds in the south.
US forces in Kabul denied reviews that the freeway had been blocked by way of the insurgents, announcing Afghan forces remained in keep an eye on of the area and have been carrying out a clearance operation targeting militants.
Confusion over one deployment of commandos headed for Ghazni also raised issues, with local media reporting up to 100 particular forces troops have been missing.
An legitimate on the ministry of defense denied the reviews.
The Afghan government stated it had despatched reinforcements to the strategic city, which lies slightly two hours pressure from Kabul at the primary freeway connecting the capital with the rustic's south. US forces in Afghanistan stated that they had been undertaking airstrikes day-to-day since the preventing started.
The assault, which the Taliban introduced late Thursday, comes because the insurgents are under increasing drive to sign up for peace talks and highlights the trouble of repelling their repeated assaults on city centres crowded with civilians, with residents some of the dead.
"About 100 security forces have lost their lives and between 20 and 30 civilians have been killed," defence minister Tariq Shah Bahrami told a press conference in Kabul, providing the primary high-level legitimate casualty determine since the insurgents entered town.
He also stated that 194 insurgents had been killed and 147 wounded.
The Taliban hastily answered, announcing the federal government's claims have been "baseless" and that talks have been "under way for their surrender".
Doctors have been struggling to treat dozens of wounded at hospitals in the eastern provincial capital, the place residents stated insurgents roamed the streets.
At a hospital in the city wounded other people might be observed groaning in agony on stretchers, whilst uncovered picket coffins stuffed with bodies have been laid at the floor.
A physician in the hospital's intensive care unit stated that they had gained over 80 dead bodies as of Sunday and had treated more than 160 sufferers, many of whom have been had been injured by way of gunshots or shrapnel.
"There are no police or soldiers to guard the hospital. They bring their wounded and then leave," the doctor, Mohammad Arif Omari, stated.
"The hospital is overwhelmed," Andrea Catta Preta, a spokeswoman for the International Red Cross in Kabul, told AFP.
With residents reporting power remained out in the city, she stated the Red Cross used to be ready to achieve the hospital on Monday all over a short lived lull in preventing, providing nearly 200 litres of gasoline for its generator and clinical provides for over 100 other people.
"Everybody is requesting assistance, so we have been doing what we can whenever we have a window of security to do something," she added.
An AFP reporter in the city stated late Sunday that militants have been going door to door and commandeering provides together with water, tea, and wheelbarrows to transport injured opponents.
Ghazni residents who arrived in Kabul after fleeing the violence told AFP that the dead bodies of militants and squaddies persisted to litter the streets, whilst government places of work have been set ablaze by way of Taliban opponents and food prices are rising.
"Everyone wanted to find a way to flee the city. Most of the people are still hiding in their basements as fighting is going from street to street," stated Ghazni journalist Fayeza Fayez, who arrived in Kabul late Sunday after fleeing town.
Communication networks in Ghazni remained most commonly down, and officials have been reticent, making any data difficult to ensure and fuelling rumours of excessive tolls. Most officials contacted by way of AFP in Ghazni and Kabul had switched their phones off.
The United Nations referred to as on all parties to admire the rights of civilians stuck in the crossfire.
The onslaught used to be the latest strive by way of the Taliban to overrun an city centre, and springs as drive will increase at the insurgents to start out peace talks with the federal government to finish the nearly 17-year-old struggle.
It used to be also the biggest tactical operation introduced by way of the Taliban since an remarkable truce in June brought preventing between security forces and the Taliban to a brief pause, providing war-weary Afghans some welcome aid.
Ghazni lies along the major Kabul-Kandahar freeway, effectively serving as a gateway between Kabul and the militant strongholds in the south.
US forces in Kabul denied reviews that the freeway had been blocked by way of the insurgents, announcing Afghan forces remained in keep an eye on of the area and have been carrying out a clearance operation targeting militants.
Confusion over one deployment of commandos headed for Ghazni also raised issues, with local media reporting up to 100 particular forces troops have been missing.
An legitimate on the ministry of defense denied the reviews.
At least 100 security forces killed in fight for Afghan city
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