Up to 12 Taliban militants were killed Saturday in a coalition airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, authorities said.\"(Saturday) in the morning the ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) and Coalition Forces conducted a successful attack on a group of armed Taliban extremists in Espand-de village in eastern Ghazni city,\" said a statement issued by coalition here.It said the insurgents were preparing to attack the ANSF, adding the coalition conducted a airstrike killing 12 terrorists.The statement also said no civilian was killed in the air attack in the province 100 km south of capital Kabul.Meantime, a provincial health official, Baz Mohammad Himat, told Xinhua that a total of eight civilians have been admitted to a provincial capital hospital who sustained injuries in the airstrike in Espand-de area Saturday morning.The Taliban insurgent group, which has been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, has yet to make comments.In addition, the Afghan army and police supported by the coalition forces have killed 14 Taliban insurgents, wounded four and arrested four others in Nangarhar, Laghman, Badakhshan, Kandahar and Helmand provinces within the last 24 hours, the country\'s Interior Ministry said in a statement earlier Saturday.
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