US troops killed three Taliban militants, including a commander, in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, its governor said Friday, while police fatally shot two in a neighbouring province, DPA reported.
Governor Mohammad Omar said the US troops engaged the militants Thursday night in Chardarah, the most restive of Kunduz's six districts.
Taliban commander Mullah Gai was among those killed and two Taliban were injured, Omar said.
In the neighbouring province of Takhar, Afghan police killed two Taliban when they came under attack late Thursday, provincial police chief Sher Ahmad said. Three police officers were wounded, he said.
On Friday, two bombs exploded on a road leading to a German military camp in Kunduz city, the provincial capital, damaging a German vehicle, Omar said. No one was killed by the bombs, which were probably detonated remotely, he said.
The attack came a week after three German soldiers were killed by Taliban militants in an ambush in Chardarah.
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