Kabul, January 01: The Taliban claim they have killed seven CIA agents and five Canadians in separate bombings in Afghanistan.
In two separate attacks on Wednesday, seven CIA officers were killed and six wounded on a US base in Khost in eastern Afghanistan. The five Canadians, including a woman journalist, were killed in Kandahar on the same day.
Khost and Kandahar are located near Helmand, which is the opium capital of Afghanistan.
Reports on Thursday also said that two French journalists had been kidnapped by suspected Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, but did not say when.
The Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid confirmed by telephone from an undisclosed location that the Taliban has taken “responsibility” for both the attacks.
——–Agencies