A large number of Taliban in Panjshir and Andarab died due to lack of oxygen.
PANJSHIR, April 18 - Sangar, Sanam Amir. Taliban and Afghan National Resistance Front sources say more than 200 Taliban have been killed in recent fighting in Panjshir, Baghlan, and Takhar provinces.
A Taliban intelligence source in Panjshir told the Sangar website that a large number of Taliban fighters in the Panjshir and Andarab mountains died from lack of oxygen.
“Studies of the bodies of our victims in hospitals show that many of them died from lack of oxygen on the high mountains of Panjshir and Andarabov. Lack of oxygen weakens a person. He is overcome by a dream from which he never wakes up. Examination of some of the bodies showed that they were first weakened by a lack of oxygen, and then shot, ” the source said.
According to him, the death of people from lack of oxygen occurred at the heights of the Abdullahel valley in Panjshir and the Kasan valley in the Andarabah province of Baghlan, even one of the Taliban commanders in the Kasan valley reported that four of his militants died from lack of oxygen at one time.
“Now the Taliban, mostly Pashtuns from the southern provinces, are aware of this problem and refuse to climb high peaks, areas where resistance forces are stationed. Only the warriors of the Gujur tribe, like the inhabitants of Panjshir and Andarab, are adapted to the climate of the Hindu Kush and can climb to great heights, but they are few,” the source said.
According to information received from the Taliban Security Directorate, over the past ten days, dozens of corpses have been sent from the battlefields in the Hindu Kush in the provinces of Helmand (58), Kandahar (43), Khost (52), Uruzgan (11), Paktia (13), Badakhshan (23), Baghlan (17), Takhar (3), Kunduz (7) and Ghazni (3).
Meanwhile, according to a report attributed to the commander of the National Resistance Front, Khalid Amiri, the number of Taliban casualties in recent fighting in Panjshir, Andarabah, and Warsaj (Takhar Province) is estimated at more than 200 people.
A source in the National Resistance Front also told Sangar that they estimated that 60 bodies were moved to Helmand province alone.
According to Taliban sources, a kafanpuli (shroud fee) of 40,000 afghanis (90 afghani = US$1) is paid for each body.
Earlier, on May 13, the Taliban Health Department officially announced at a ministry headquarters meeting that 84 people were killed and 109 injured in recent fighting in the Hindu Kush. However, this figure does not include the losses of the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local Taliban.
Both the Resistance Front and the Taliban announced that they were unable to find all of their bodies in the Hindu Kush mountains.
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