Death toll rises to 50 in Afghanistan's Kandahar airport siege: officials
10 Dec 2015 12:23 PM IST
A conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.
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A conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.
Kandahar
: The death toll from a 27-hour Taliban siege of Kandahar airport has jumped to 50, the Afghan defence ministry said on Thursday, after a conference in Pakistan shored up international support for reviving peace talks.
-"Fifty of our innocent countrymen, including 10 soldiers, two policemen and 38 civilians, were martyred in the attack,-" the ministry said in a statement, adding that 37 others were wounded.
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