KABUL (AFP) – A senior Taliban commander disguised in woman's clothes was killed by Afghan and international forces when he fired on troops trying to catch him south of Kabul, the military said Saturday.
NATO and Afghan security forces cornered Ghulam Sakhi at a compound on Friday night in the Puli Alam district of Logar province and called for women and children to leave the building, a coalition statement said.
"As they were exiting, Sakhi came out with the group disguised in women's attire and pulled out a pistol and a grenade and shot at the security force," the statement by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
"When Afghan and coalition forces shot him he dropped the grenade and it detonated, wounding a woman and two children."
Sakhi was known by several aliases and involved in attacks on Afghan and foreign forces using improvised explosive devises (IEDs), the main Taliban weapon in a war now in its ninth year.
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